Announcing BIOLOGY OPEN from The Company of Biologists

["Jane Pennington" <j.pennington@biologists.com>]

Announcing

BIOLOGY OPEN - Facilitating rapid review for accessible research

Online Only, Open Access
Launching Autumn 2011

The Company of Biologists is pleased to announce BIOLOGY OPEN 
(BiO), a new online only, Open Access journal publishing original 
research across all aspects of the biological sciences including 
cell science, developmental biology and experimental biology. 
The journal aims to provide rapid publication for peer reviewed, 
scientifically sound observations and valid conclusions in these 
allied fields.

BIOLOGY OPEN will address some big issues in publishing and is 
supported by John Gurdon, Alan (Rick) Horwitz, Tim Hunt, Martin 
Raff and Cheryll Tickle.

Authors often find their papers delayed by strict reviewing 
procedures and multiple submissions:

* 64% of authors are concerned about the speed of peer review and 
publication

* 56% of authors feel publication delays harm their paper's 
impact

* 61% of cell science authors face significant challenges finding 
a home for their papers

(Results taken from recent author surveys by The Company of 
Biologists)

By focusing on the timely publication of sound research rather 
than that with perceived impact or importance, BIOLOGY OPEN is 
designed to facilitate dialogue and build a valuable body of work 
supporting the efforts of the research community.  The impact of 
each paper will be decided by the community through usage and 
discussion.  The journal will also consider useful reports of 
negative results.  Authors will be able to submit direct or 
benefit from our manuscript rapid-transfer system if their 
original submission was to one of The Company of Biologists' 
flagship journals, DEVELOPMENT, DISEASE MODELS & MECHANISMS, 
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE and THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY.

Accepted articles will be published immediately online and all 
articles will be deposited in PubMed Central.  The journal will 
be listed on Open J-Gate and DOAJ.

BIOLOGY OPEN ISSN: 2046-6390 will be published on HighWire under 
the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 
Share Alike License 
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0)

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