Announcing the First Online Open Articles from Blackwell

["Gillingham Emily" <Emily.Gillingham@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com>]

- Announcing the First Online Open Articles Published on Blackwell Synergy -

The first articles using Blackwell Publishing'�s Online Open service are now
available for access on Blackwell Synergy.

Please follow the links below to access the articles for free:

M.P. Cooper, N. Fretwell, S.J. Bailey & L.A. Lyons.
White spotting in the domestic cat (Felis catus) maps near KIT on feline
chromosome B1.
Animal Genetics, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2005.01389.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showOpenAccess?journalCode=age

Crippa, B., Crosetto, M., Biescas, E., Troise, C., Pingue, F. & Natale, G. De
An advanced slip model for the Umbria-Marche earthquake sequence: coseismic
displacements observed by SAR interferometry and model inversion.
Geophysical Journal International 164 (1), 36-45. doi:
10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02830.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showOpenAccess?journalCode=gji

Rafelski, Susanne M. & Theriot, Julie A. (2006)
Mechanism of polarization of Listeria monocytogenes surface protein ActA.
Molecular Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05025.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showOpenAccess?journalCode=mmi

Wilson, Mark A., Shukitt-Hale, Barbara, Kalt, Wilhelmina, Ingram, Donald K.,
Joseph, James A. & Wolkow, Catherine A. (2006)
Blueberry polyphenols increase lifespan and thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis
elegans.
Aging Cell, doi: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2006.00192.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showOpenAccess?journalCode=ace

Gami, Minaxi S. & Wolkow, Catherine A. (2006)
Studies of Caenorhabditis elegans DAF-2/insulin signaling reveal targets for
pharmacological manipulation of lifespan.
Aging Cell, doi: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2006.00188.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showOpenAccess?journalCode=ace

Online Open is a new service from Blackwell which enables authors to choose to
make their articles freely available to readers through a pay-to-publish fee. 
79 journals from Blackwell Publishing now offer the Online Open service to
their authors (listed below).  As well as the five articles now published, a
further eight Online Open articles are currently going through the production
process.

A new partnership with the Wellcome Trust ensures that Blackwell's Online Open
is a Wellcome-approved system, and that any Wellcome-funded authors wishing to
make their articles Online Open will receive funding for this from the Trust
(for details see http://wellcome.ac.uk/openaccess).

Dr. Leslie Lyons, author of the first Online Open article and Associate
Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California,
Davis, said , "We are honored that our manuscript regarding feline white
spotting was the first Online Open access publication for Blackwell."  He
added,  'Science is making explosive progress, particularly in genetics, thus
Online Open access not only provides rapid communication of scientific data,
but also allows scientists throughout the world, particularly researchers with
more limited libraries, to participate on the cutting edge of their field."

- About Online Open -

Online Open is on trial as an author-pays service through to the end of 2006. 
During the trial period, the Online Open fee is fixed at US$2500, €1850 or
£1250 (plus VAT where applicable).  All Online Open articles are treated in
the same way as any other article. They go through the journals' standard
peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit. 
The accepted articles are prepared for publication in the usual manner and are
posted online on Blackwell Synergy with the full range of features associated
with that journal.  The articles are archived for perpetuity and are registered
at relevant Abstracting and Indexing Services and at CrossRef.  Blackwell
Publishing will also deposit the final text of the article on publication with
PubMed Central (PMC) on behalf of the author.


The following journals now offer the Online Open service to their authors:

•	African Journal of Ecology
•	Aging Cell
•	American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
•	Anaesthesia
•	Animal Conservation
•	Animal Genetics
•	Annals of Human Genetics
•	APMIS
•	Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
•	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
•	British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
•	Cellular Microbiology
•	Chemical Biology and Drug Design
•	Clinical and Experimental Allergy
•	Clinical and Experimental Immunology
•	Clinical Endocrinology
•	Clinical Genetics
•	Clinical Transplantation
•	Diabetic Medicine
•	Differentiation
•	Diversity and Distributions
•	Ecology of Freshwater Fish
•	European Journal of Haematology
•	European Journal of Soil Science
•	Experimental Physiology
•	Freshwater Biology
•	Functional Ecology
•	Genes, Brain and Behavior
•	Geophysical Journal International
•	Global Change Biology
•	Global Ecology and Biogeography
•	Histopathology
•	Ibis
•	Immunology
•	International Journal of Immunogenetics
•	International Journal of Andrology
•	International Journal of Clinical Practice
•	Invertebrate Biology
•	Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine
•	Journal of Anatomy
•	Journal of Animal Ecology
•	Journal of Applied Ecology
•	Journal of Applied Microbiology
•	Journal of Biogeography
•	Journal of Ecology
•	Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
•	Journal of Evolutionary Biology
•	Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
•	Journal of Medical Primatology
•	Journal of Metamorphic Geology
•	Journal of Neurochemistry
•	Journal of Neuroendocrinology
•	The Journal of Physiology
•	Journal of Pineal Research
•	Journal of Viral Hepatitis
•	Journal of Zoology
•	Letters in Applied Microbiology
•	Liver International
•	Molecular Ecology
•	Molecular Ecology Notes
•	Molecular Microbiology
•	Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
•	New Phytologist
•	Parasite Immunology
•	Pediatric Transplantation
•	Pigment Cell Research
•	Plant, Cell and Environment
•	Restoration Ecology
•	Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
•	Sedimentology
•	Soil Use and Management
•	Tellus A
•	Tellus B
•	Tissue Antigens
•	Transplant Infectious Diseases
•	Transplant International
•	Value in Health
•	Xenotransplantation
•	Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/static/onlineopen.asp

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