John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the transition of four journals
to the Wiley
Open Access publishing program, bringing the total number of Wiley’s
open access titles to 28. From January 1, 2014, all newly published
articles in Aging
Cell, Cancer
Science, Influenza
and Other Respiratory Viruses, and the Journal
of Diabetes Investigation, will be open access and free to view,
download and share.
Published in association with the Anatomical Society, Aging Cell has
an Impact Factor of 5.705 and ranks third in the field of geriatrics and
gerontology.
Cancer Science is published on behalf of the Japanese Cancer
Association and attracts over 1,300 submissions annually worldwide. It
has attained an Impact Factor of 3.479, establishing its role as the
leading oncology journal in Asia.
Launched in 2007 Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses is
the official journal of the International Society for Influenza and
other Respiratory Virus Diseases. It is the first journal to specialize
exclusively on these important areas and has an Impact Factor of 1.471.
The Journal of Diabetes Investigation launched in 2010 and
has an Impact Factor of 1.77. It is the official journal of the Asian
Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD), which represents academic
societies, associations and individual researchers from across East and
Southeast Asia.
"There are a number of journals published by Wiley that will move to an
open access publishing model over the next year. It is significant that
these four journals from some of our prestigious partner associations
are making the change to open access in 2014,” said Rachel Burley, Vice
President and Director of Open Access, Wiley. “We look forward to
working with each of these associations to ensure that the journals
continue to serve their communities by publishing world-leading
research."
All four journals are now accepting submissions, which will be published
open access from January 2014 under the Creative Commons Attribution
(CC-BY) License, which permits use, distribution, reproduction and
adaptation in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
As part of the Wiley
Open Access program authors, their funding agencies, or their
institutions can pay an Article Publication Charge (APC), to ensure that
the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley
Online Library, as well as deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) and PMC
mirror sites. Authors affiliated with, or funded by, an organization
that has aWiley
Open Access Account can publish without directly paying any
publication charges.
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