Press release: Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced

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Press Release: 
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Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced
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San Diego, CA., 13 March 2005: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today
announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic
chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be published by the
Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central, the Open Access
publisher. The peer-reviewed online journal will begin publication during
2005, and a call for papers, providing full information for authors, will
be issued in May.

Director of the Beilstein-Institut Martin Hicks made the announcement at
the American Chemical Society 229th Annual Meeting in San Diego,
California. Professor Jonathan Clayden, of the University of Manchester,
has been confirmed as the Editor-in-Chief, and an international editorial
advisory board is also being appointed.

The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will publish outstanding
original research on all aspects of organic chemistry and related
disciplines. Areas covered in the journal will include: organic synthesis,
organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical
biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic
chemistry.

As an Open Access journal, the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will
offer the international community of organic chemists the opportunity to
make their research results freely available immediately on publication,
and permanently available in the public archives of science.

The journal will publish full research articles and short communications,
as well as occasional reviews and commentary articles. Supplementary data
will also be published. There will be particular emphasis on speed of
publication and on presentation of the articles in a chemically
intelligent way. The journal will be made freely available online, while
an annual print archival edition will be available for purchase at cost.

The Beilstein-Institut is committed to improving communication among
chemists and will support the journal financially, including the
publishing costs, to enable the journal to be open access without charge
to authors.

Just as Beilstein has been synonymous with high quality scientific
publishing for over two centuries, so BioMed Central has become synonymous
with high-quality, online Open Access publishing in the biomedical
disciplines, and is now making its publishing expertise available to new
fields. BioMed Central now publishes over 130 Open Access journals, and
will provide the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry with a complete
publishing system, maintain and host the journal.

Together these two organizations will ensure that the Beilstein Journal of
Organic Chemistry offers authors, readers and libraries the highest
quality service.

For more information:

For Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 
http://www.beilstein-journals.org/

For the Beilstein-Institut
bjoc@beilstein-institut.de or Tel: +49 (0) 69-716732-0 

For BioMed Central 
Grace Baynes Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 9988 
E-mail: press@biomedcentral.com

About the Beilstein-Institut

The Beilstein-Institut zur F�rderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften
(Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences) is a
non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The
Beilstein-Institut pursues its purpose in particular in chemistry and its
related areas and disciplines, especially information and communication.

About BioMed Central

BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to
providing open access to peer-reviewed research. This commitment is based
on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to
freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid
and efficient communication of science.

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