Abstract
When we launched Open Biology late last year, our goal was to offer a high-quality, open access journal that met the needs of scientific researchers working in biology at the molecular and cellular level. I feel that we are well on our way to achieving this goal and wish to update you on the
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When we launched Open Biology late last year, our goal was to offer a highquality, open access journal that met the needs of scientific researchers working in biology at the molecular and cellular level
Open Biology’s mission is to provide a service that actively meets the needs of biologists with cellular and molecular interests
The President of the Royal Society, Paul Nurse, succinctly summarized the essence of our ethos: This new journal will be run by scientists for scientists with an editorial system that will be making decisions rather than weighing opinion
Summary
When we launched Open Biology late last year, our goal was to offer a highquality, open access journal that met the needs of scientific researchers working in biology at the molecular and cellular level. Open Biology’s mission is to provide a service that actively meets the needs of biologists with cellular and molecular interests This includes providing a rapid, constructive and fair peer review system that allows valuable work to proceed quickly to publication. Dario Alessi and Miratul Muqit at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit in Dundee sent us their study on the mutation of PINK1 kinase in Parkinson’s disease [4] This field has been plagued by the low activity of the human enzyme. One priority is to get Open Biology indexed in the appropriate databases, the most important of which is PubMed. In order for PubMed to evaluate a new journal, they need a minimum number of published articles and I am pleased to report that we are to make our submission for inclusion very soon. I can confirm that we are already being tracked for inclusion in Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports
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