Scientific Phone Apps

 
Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on research and science oriented mobile apps and add-on sensors.

Check out the article, "The world of biomedical apps: their uses, limitations, and potential" for a review of many scientific apps.

New Journals 2015

The Library was able to obtain access to a number of new journal titles in 2015 through various package and consortial arrangements:

• ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
• ACS Infectious Diseases
• Coordination Chemistry Reviews
• Current Opinion in Virology
• Journal of Biotechnology
• Journal of Proteomics

Plus, there are new Open Access options for two highly requested titles:

• RSC’s Chemical Science - will be open access and freely accessible to everyone from 2015 going forwards. RSC is also waiving the open access article processing charge for the years 2015 and 2016.
• Nature Communications -is transitioning to open access in 2015 with many articles available for free this year, but not all. By 2016 all new articles in this journal will be open access and therefore freely available to everyone.

Open Access Week

It's Open Access Week! A week to think about the future of scholarly publishing.

Here are some recent articles:

• From the co-founder of PLOS, an interesting read called The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing.

• Nature has a special issue called, The Future of Publishing, with many articles on the open access movement.

mBio: new open access journal

The American Society of Microbiology has launched its first fully open access journal online, mBio. It's peer-reviewed and covers a broad range of research incorporating microbiology and its allied disciplines. The full-text and supplementary materials of an article are available online immediately upon publication.

mBio is trying a few new things in the world of scientific publishing. First, it is asking authors to write a brief description in plain, non-scientific English, to explain why their work is important. They hope to reach nonspecialist scientists and critical nonscientific audiences such as policy makers. The second new departure is a "rapid and clear decision on the disposition of the paper. Papers will either be accepted with minimal revisions or rejected." They believe this will make for a clearer and more effecient review process.

Cell Death & Disease - new open access Nature journal

Nature Publishing Group announced a new open access journal, Cell Death & Disease. All articles are available free online and are peer-reviewed. Open access for this journal is funded by an article processing charge of $3000 per article. "Cell Death & Disease is devoted to the biology of cell death in the pathogenesis of human diseases or relevant animal models."