Taylor & Francis Group widens Open Access offerings | 4-Traders

"Taylor & Francis Group is marking Open Access week by announcing a range of new Open Access journals and an enhancement of their current Open Access programme for 2012. These initiatives will encompass publications from across the range of science, social and behavioural sciences and humanities subjects. Taylor & Francis' current iOpenAccess option will be renamed for 2012 as Taylor & Francis Open Select and will continue to give authors and their sponsors the option of making their articles available on Open Acess to all for a publication fee. This initiative has been running since 2006 and currently encompasses 500 titles from across Taylor & Francis Group's extensive portfolio. In addition, three cutting-edge titles currently available on a subscription basis will be converted to full Open Access for 2012. The digital archives of these titles will also be made Open Access. These titles - Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Smart and Nano Materials - publish significant research in their fields and have author communities with a strong interest in publishing research in an Open Access model. Taylor & Francis will also be launching Taylor & Francis Open. This initiative will cover all our fully Open Access titles. One important part of this initiative is a new series of fully Open Access titles from 2012 in major subject areas. These titles will offer rapid online publication of methodologically sound research which will be subject to rigorous peer review. The journals will have affordable article publication fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries...."