A Boston Globe article reports on the apparent success of PLOS Biology,an open access journal which had the highest impact factor amonggeneral biology journals. (source; Open Access News)

BioMed Central today announces the launch of BMC Veterinary Research, the first international Open Access journal to cover all areas of veterinary science and medicine... click link for more info.

Our understanding of how messenger RNAs are translated into proteins is challenged by new research published today in the Open Access journal Journal of Biology.

A new open-access e-journal, Open Government: A Journal on Freedom of Information, published its inaugural issue this week. Funded by the School of Business Information at Liverpool John Moores University, the journal aims to publish peer-reviewed article

April 1, 2004 -- The journal communication process is critical to scientific and professional practice. If, indeed, "science can help" when it comes to addressing serious ...

The American Physical Society announced a new journal, Physical ReviewSpecial Topics - Physics Education Research. "The journal will bedistributed without charge, and financedby publication charges to the authors or to the authors'institu tions." Similar journals include the American Journal ofPhysics and the Physics Teacher (both AAPT) and Physics Education(IoP).

:: From an e-mail received today from Cambridge:Susta inability: Science, Practice, & Policy, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal, has launched publication. Accessible at http:ejournal.n bii.org, the e-journal provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out...