6 July 2009

2010 prices are now available

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that our 2010 prices are now available. Please read on for important information about our change in pricing policy, our online-only price freeze, and the titles joining and leaving our collection in 2010.
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10 June 2009

Oxford Journals gains international standard for quality management

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has become one of the first STM publishers to achieve ISO 9001:2008 certification for the operations side of its business.
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27 May 2009

2010 pricing information from Oxford Journals

We have made some changes to our pricing policy for 2010 that we would like to share with you. From 2010 onwards the online only price will be the ‘base’ price for all the journals we publish (rather than the print-plus-online or combined price).
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27 April 2009

Online access to Brief Treatment & Crisis Intervention to be available through preservation services

Oxford Journals announced today that the journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, which has been discontinued, will be accessible through two preservation services: CLOCKSS and Portico.
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7 April 2009

Two Oxford Journals feature in SLA’s top 100 journals list

Nucleic Acids Research and the Journal of Experimental Botany have been identified by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as two of the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine over the last 100 years.
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1 April 2009

Oxford Journals launches DATABASE – a new open access journal

Oxford Journals is today delighted to announce the launch of an innovative, open access journal, DATABASE: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. The new journal provides a platform for novel ideas in database research and the curation of biological information. It aims to strengthen the bridge between database developers, curators, and users.
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18 February 2009

Oxford Journals and the International Society for Computational Biology announce new partnership

Oxford Journals and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) are delighted to announce a new publishing partnership. From this year, the journal Bioinformatics will once again become an official journal of the ISCB.
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2 February 2009

Oxford Journals announces stronger relationship with European Society of Cardiology

Today Oxford Journals and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) announced a new publishing partnership for the European Journal of Heart Failure. This is the fifth title from the ESC Journal Family to join Oxford Journals, following the European Heart Journal in 2005, EP - Europace in 2006, and Cardiovascular Research and the European Journal of Echocardiography in 2008.
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15 January 2009

Winter issue of the Oxford Journals Update for Librarians now online

We are pleased to announce that the winter issue of our Oxford Journals Update for Librarians has just been published online.
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19 December 2008

Oxford University Press is now Shibboleth-compliant

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that from Monday 22 December its journals and many online products can be accessed using Shibboleth by subscribing institutions who are members of the UK Access Management Federation.
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2 December 2008

Oxford Journals signs a nationwide archive deal in China

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), enabling thousands of Chinese researchers to access archival content dating back to 1849 for over 150 journals.
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12 November 2008

Oxford Journals passes annual COUNTER audit

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that their usage statistics have passed their annual COUNTER audit for 2008. This audit was carried out on behalf of COUNTER by ABCe, an independent third-party auditor, who analysed data from June 2008.
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20 October 2008

Oxford Journals partners with Waldo to offer collection to members

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement with the Westchester Academic Library Director’s Organization (WALDO) to enable many more US researchers to access the Oxford Journals Collection.
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8 October 2008

New national agreement increases access to Oxford Journals content in Germany

Oxford Journals is delighted to have signed a new national agreement providing higher education, government and publicly funded research institutions, state and regional libraries, and universities in Germany with online access to both the Oxford Journals Collection and Archive.
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22 September 2008

Bioscience Horizons is highly commended for publishing innovation

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce that Bioscience Horizons has been awarded a Highly Commended certificate by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) for publishing innovation. The winners of the 2008 awards were announced at the ALPSP International Conference Dinner on Thursday 11 September 2008.
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1 September 2008

Oxford Journals extends their contract with HighWire Press

Oxford Journals today announced the extension of their contract with HighWire Press, the premier online hosting division of the Stanford University Libraries. With this agreement, HighWire will continue hosting the online content of all journals published by Oxford University Press through 2010.
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11 August 2008

Oxford Journals announces partnership with The Gerontological Society of America

Today Oxford Journals and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) announced a new publishing partnership for GSA’s three journals: The Gerontologist, and The Journals of Gerontology: Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences and Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
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4 August 2008

Oxford Journals now deposits NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central

Oxford Journals today announced that they will deposit into PubMed Central (PMC) any articles published in any of their biomedical journals which are identified by the authors as being funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This development helps authors to comply with the public access policies of the NIH.
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24 July 2008

Oxford Journals announces 2009 prices

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that 2009 prices are now available. Please read on for information on 2009 Oxford Journals joiners and leavers, and an update on Oxford Open, the Oxford Journals Archive, and the Oxford Journals Collection.
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13 June 2008

Oxford Journals announces that articles published in Oxford Open journals are now automatically deposited in PubMed Central

Oxford Journals announced today that open access articles published in over 50 journals in the Oxford Open initiative are now being automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC).
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12 June 2008

A new journal to address global energy concerns

The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) have announced that the Journal of World Energy Law & Business will be published by Oxford University Press from May 2008. This will complement Oxford’s other journals in the energy and environmental law field, including the Journal of Environmental Law.
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2 April 2008

Oxford Journals launches innovative new GP training journal

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the launch of InnovAiT, a new journal for trainee GPs to complement their path through training, published in partnership with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
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26 March 2008

Oxford Journals launches first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to undergraduate bioscience research

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the launch of Bioscience Horizons, a free online journal showcasing the best undergraduate bioscience research from the UK and Republic of Ireland.
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19 March 2008

Oxford Journals appoints Roland Ehrenfels as Sales and Marketing Director

19th March 2008 Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the appointment of Roland Ehrenfels as Sales and Marketing Director.
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13 March 2008

Oxford Journals becomes a content partner of Serials Solutions’ KnowledgeWorks Certified program

Oxford Journals announced today that it is a content partner of Serials Solutions’ KnowledgeWorks Certified program, thereby ensuring that bibliographic data relating to its journals is as accurate and up-to-date as possible in the Serial Solutions’ knowledgebase.
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13 February 2008

Oxford Journals announces further partnership with European Society of Cardiology

Today Oxford Journals and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) announced a new publishing partnership for the European Journal of Echocardiography, starting in 2008. This will be the fourth of the ESC’s titles to join Oxford Journals, following European Heart Journal in 2005, Europace in 2006, and Cardiovascular Research, which is also being launched by Oxford Journals for 2008.
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6 February 2008

Oxford Journals’ agreement with CALIS broadens China’s access to scholarly content

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Chinese Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), giving a large number of libraries in China the opportunity to access the Oxford Journals Collection. Oxford Journals has become the first publisher to sign an agreement with CALIS since the consortium reformed its purchase procedures in August 2006.
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29 January 2008

Oxford Journals celebrates launch of Contemporary Women’s Writing with inaugural double issue

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the launch of Contemporary Women’s Writing. This exciting new journal, unique in its field, critically assesses writing by women authors who have published from 1970 to the present.
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31 October 2007

Oxford Journals and London Mathematical Society launch Journal of Topology

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that papers from the first issue of the Journal of Topology, published on behalf of the London Mathematical Society(LMS), are now freely available online.
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19 September 2007

The European Society for Medical Oncology, Oxford Journals, and the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology announce collaboration

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), together with Oxford Journals, and the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO) are pleased to announce a new collaboration which will result in ESMO’s official journal Annals of Oncologybecoming the official scientific publication for the Japanese society.
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19 June 2007

Journal of Experimental Botany announces free open access for authors at subscribing institutions

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that all primary papers published in the Journal of Experimental Botany after 1 April 2007 are being published without any open access charge if the corresponding author’s institution has a current subscription to the journal.
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12 June 2007

ESC’s Cardiovascular Research announces new partnership with Oxford Journals

Today the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) announced that its journal Cardiovascular Research will be published by Oxford Journals from January 2008. This will be the third of the ESC’s prestigious titles to join Oxford Journals, following The European Heart Journal (EHJ) in 2005 and Europace in 2006.
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29 May 2007

Oxford Journals to publish two new Economics and Finance titles

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the addition to our list of two new Economics and Finance titles. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy is launched today, published jointly with the Association for Environmental and Resource Economists. Oxford Journals is also publishing Review of Finance on behalf of the European Finance Association, starting from 2007.
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13 April 2007

Oxford Journals to publish new Transitional Justice Journal

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce the launch of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. The journal publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed papers in the rapidly growing field of transitional justice - the study of the strategies employed by states, civil society, and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses, and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence.
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12 April 2007

Quality and value of Oxford Journals collection confirmed

An updated study examining trends in journals pricing from 2000-2006 has been released today by LISU, based at Loughborough University. The findings show Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, continues to offer significant quality and value to its customers, with the lowest price increases of eleven leading publishers over the six year period.
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28 March 2007

Oxford Journals reinforces global presence with representative office in China

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), is maintaining its longstanding commitment to maximizing the global dissemination of high quality academic research by opening a representative office in China. This marks the organization’s increased commitment to strengthening the support of scholarship across Asia. Oxford Information Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of OUP, was established specifically to further academic communication and market research, and will provide Oxford Journals with local facilities and expertise in China.
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15 March 2007

Oxford Journals adopts innovative new customer integration solution from DataSalon Ltd

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), today announced their adoption of an innovative new data integration system in order to provide highly flexible support for customer analysis and targeted marketing.
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5 February 2007

Oxford Journals to publish four new mathematics titles in 2007

Oxford Journals have today announced the purchase of four mathematics journals from Hindawi Publishing Corporation: International Mathematics Research Notices; International Mathematics Research Papers; Applied Mathematics Research Express; and International Mathematics Research Surveys.
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28 November 2006

New open access agreement for Oxford Journals and National Library of Medicine

Oxford Journals today announced a new agreement with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that will allow all content published as open access under its Oxford Open model to be available from PubMed Central.
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27 November 2006

Oxford Journals offers faster and better access to metadata records with OAI-PMH functionality

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, today announced that all abstracts and metadata for over 180 journals can now be obtained using OAI-PMH functionality.
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23 November 2006

Document Delivery: Oxford University Press and SIMID® SA agree to make contents of Medical Journals available through SIMID’s database

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, and SIMID® SA have signed an agreement saying that all full-text articles from some of Oxford’s medical journals will be available for purchase via the database of SIMID SA. With this cooperation both parties hope to increase their market share in Europe as providers of medical information.
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13 November 2006

Oxford Journals partners with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea to publish leading marine science title

Oxford Journals has announced that it is to publish The ICES Journal of Marine Science, on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
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6 November 2006

Justis Publishing Ltd signs content agreement with Oxford University Press

Legal electronic publisher, Justis Publishing Ltd has signed an agreement with Oxford University Press to index their full catalogue of legal journals on their legal reference citator service, JustCite.
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2 November 2006

Oxford Journals strengthens position in South Asia with new Indian office

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), is pleased to announce the opening of a new sales office in India. Based in Kolkata, this will be managed by Kaushik Ghosh, recently appointed Library Sales Manager for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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18 October 2006

Prestigious mathematics titles to be published by Oxford Journals

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce a new publishing partnership with the London Mathematical Society (LMS) to publish three titles: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, and Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.
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6 September 2006

Oxford University Press Selects Rightslink(R) for Online, Automated Copyright Permissions

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions, have announced that Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), has selected Rightslink(R) as its automated, online permissions licensing solution. Oxford Journals is using Rightslink to provide a faster, more efficient way for customers to secure permission to reuse content from more than 170 Oxford Journals publications.
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30 August 2006

Full year results from Oxford Open show wide variation in open access uptake across disciplines

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, today released full year figures from its optional open access experiment, Oxford Open. In the first year of launch, almost 400 papers have been published under the optional open access model across 36 of the 49 participating titles.
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25 August 2006

Collaboration between two University Presses brings first Chinese peer-reviewed journal to a Western audience

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, is delighted to announce the launch of The Chinese Journal of International Politics (CJIP), an English translation of China’s first peer-reviewed journal of international studies.
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4 August 2006

Oxford University Press acquires Gostick Hall Publications

Oxford University Press has today acquired the assets of UK-based law publisher Gostick Hall Publications. Gostick Hall Publications is a niche legal publisher specialising in trust law and practice and associated subjects including international finance.
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3 July 2006

Oxford Journals launches SCAN – a new journal in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal in the social neurosciences.
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27 June 2006

Oxford Journals release preliminary findings from open access experiments

Findings from three studies into the effects of open access on authors, readers, usage, and citations have today been made available online. The reports, conducted by LISU, CIBER, and Oxford Journals, were shared with the research community as part of a one day workshop earlier this month.
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13 June 2006

Oxford Journals share evidence-based open access results with the community

The impact of open access for publishers, authors, and readers was the subject of a one day conference held in London last week, organised by Oxford Journals. Findings presented from three studies conducted by LISU, CIBER, and Oxford Journals, gave researchers a rare opportunity to view how the open access business model is working in practice.
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15 May 2006

Oxford Journals successfully completes the launch of its digital archive

Over 135 years of research is now available online in the Oxford Journals Digital Archive. The collection, officially launched last month, now provides access to all content from volume one, issue one, for nearly 140 journals.
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18 April 2006

Oxford Journals to present open access results in one day workshop

Oxford Journals is holding a one-day conference to report results from its open access experiments.
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23 March 2006

1 in 8 of Thomson Scientific’s 2005 Top 40 “Hottest papers” from three Oxford Journals titles

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce that five papers from three of its titles have been included in Thomson Scientific’s recently published Top 40 “Red-Hot Research Papers” for 2005. Of these a paper from Bioinformatics is the fifth most highly cited research article of the year, while Nucleic Acids Research has attained fifth place overall in terms of numbers of papers in the “Red-hot” list. A further article from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute was also included.
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13 March 2006

Third archiving deal for Oxford Journals guarantees long term preservation of electronic content

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has signed a key archiving agreement with Portico, an electronic archiving service launched in 2005 with funding from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, and The Library of Congress. The agreement assures robust long-term preservation and ongoing access to Oxford Journals electronic content.
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2 March 2006

Oxford Journals partners with Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to publish leading biology title

Oxford Journals today announced a new agreement to publish Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB) from 2006. ICB is the official title of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB).
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17 January 2006

Oxford Journals and the CESifo Group announce publishing partnership

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), today announced that
CESifo Economic Studies (CES), published on behalf of the CESifo Group in Munich, has become the latest high profile journal to join the Oxford Journals list.
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20 December 2005

Wellcome Trust announce open access funding

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15 December 2005

ESC’S Europace announces new partnership with Oxford Journals

Today the European Heart Rhythm Association of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) announced that from 2006 its prestigious journal, Europace, will be published by Oxford Journals.
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17 November 2005

Oxford University Press launches new journal of Intellectual Property law

Oxford University Press is delighted to announce the launch of a new Intellectual Property journal. The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, (JIPLP) will publish peer-reviewed research across the full range of substantive IP topics, including practice-related matters such as litigation; enforcement; drafting and transactions; and relevant aspects of related subjects such as competition and world trade law.
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15 November 2005

Oxford Journals to publish two ‘Briefing’ titles from 2006

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has announced the purchase of two titles from Henry Stewart Publications, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics. The Briefings titles join Oxford’s leading collection of Life Science titles from 2006.
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3 November 2005

Oxford Open – first quarter results show marked differences in uptake across disciplines

Oxford Journals today released the first results from its optional open access model, Oxford Open, maintaining its commitment to sharing first hand open access evidence with the scholarly community. It has also confirmed a further 19 journals to join the initiative from January 2006
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20 October 2005

Long-term access to Oxford Journals content receives further boost with LOCKSS Programme

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce that it is to begin preserving its content in Stanford University’s LOCKSS Programme.
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14 September 2005

Oxford Journals relaunched: the new Oxford Journals website is now live

Take a fresh look at Oxford Journals online. The redesigned site, launched this week, provides improved accessibility, greater efficiency, and – best of all – an extended wealth of information and services for our readers, authors, purchasers, and society partners.
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8 August 2005

ADDENDUM: Further information on Oxford Journals' Self-Archiving Policy

Further to the Oxford Journals announcement dated 4 May, 2005 Oxford Journals launches Oxford Open - a new open access initiative, please note the following additional policy information for authors.
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1 July 2005

Oxford Journals Launch Humanities Archive

Today Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, announced the launch of its Humanities Archive: the first of five subject-based digital backfiles to be launched by early 2006.
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4 May 2005

Oxford Journals launches Oxford Open - a new open access initiative

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), has announced its latest Open Access (OA) project, Oxford Open. Commencing July 2005, it will offer an optional author-pays model to authors of accepted papers in a range of Oxford Journals titles. Oxford Journals has also amended its post-prints policy to be compliant with the latest National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy. Both of these announcements further support Oxford Journals' central remit, as a leading not-for-profit publisher, to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience.
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24 February 2005

Oxford Journals now authenticating with Athens

Athens authentication is now available from Oxford Journals Online.
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12 January 2005

JISC funding gives Oxford Journals new boost for Open Access experiments

Oxford Journals today announced that two of its most prestigious titles have been granted a total of 60,000 GBP to help fund continued experimentation with Open Access.
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5 January 2005

Oxford Journals and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) selected by NIMH to take over publication of Schizophrenia Bulletin

A landmark Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Oxford Journals, and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) concerning NIMH's journal Schizophrenia Bulletin (the Bulletin). From January 2005 the Bulletin will be co-owned and published by Oxford Journals and the MPRC. This is the latest high-ranking clinical journal to move publication to Oxford Journals, following recent news of the European Heart Journal.
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17 November 2004

Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information: comments from Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP), part of the University of Oxford, publishes 180 journals across a broad range of subjects including humanities and social sciences as well as science and medicine. Around 60% of our journals are published in collaboration with learned societies or other organisations.
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18 October 2004

Oxford Journals announce new agreement with European Society of Cardiology

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and Oxford Journals, part of Oxford University Press, have today announced a new publishing agreement. Oxford Journals will publish the ESC's European Heart Journal (EHJ) from January 2005. This represents a new era in the journal's 25-year history, and Oxford Journals will work with the ESC to provide an enhanced service for members, authors, and readers.
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14 October 2004

Long-term accessibility of Oxford Journals' archive is assured

The Hague Today, Martin Richardson, Managing Director of Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, signed an agreement securing long-term digital archiving of Oxford Journals' entire collection. Under the terms of this agreement the KB will receive digital copies of all current and digitized back-archive journal issues made available on the Oxford Journals online platform, which currently hosts 184 scholarly journals spanning the academic spectrum from humanities to science.
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7 October 2004

New Study Sheds Light on Journals Pricing

A new report published today by LISU, based at Loughborough University, offers some valuable insights into scholarly journals pricing over the last decade. Amongst the findings are average price increases by publisher ranging from 27% to 94% over the period 2000-2004, and biomedical journal prices per page ranging from £0.31 (approx. $0.55) to £0.98 (approx. $1.75) in 2004 (average by publisher).
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18 August 2004

New agreement between OUP and HighWire Press set to spearhead the next generation in online journal publishing

Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) announced today that it had signed an agreement for Stanford University's HighWire Press to host its entire journals collection, beginning January 2005. Through this partnership OUP and HighWire aim to develop a leading online environment in academic publishing.
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26 June 2004

Oxford Journals Takes Bold Step Towards Free Access to Research

Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full 'Open Access' (OA) publishing model from January 2005. This represents a significant step towards maximum dissemination of scholarly research, a core part of OUP's mission as a leading University-owned Press.
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8 June 2004

Oxford Journals launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine

This month sees publication of a brand new journal from OUP entitled eCAM (Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Whilst offering the academic, research, and medical communities a new journal in an area currently under-represented, the journal has also been developed to be available for free online.
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29 April 2004

Oxford Journals participate in CrossRef Search pilot project

Oxford Journals is pleased to be one of nine leading publishers taking part in a new initiative from CrossRef, which enables users to search the full text of high-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources covering the full spectrum of scholarly research. Called CrossRef Search, this new pilot program utilizes the collaborative environment of CrossRef, the reference-linking service for scholarly publishing, and Google search technologies.
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8 April 2004

Experimenting with Open Access publishing - OUP takes part in the Nature Web Focus Debate

As part of the online debate on 'access to the literature', Martin Richardson and Claire Saxby have produced an article outlining the several open access experiments OUP are currently undertaking.
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24 March 2004

ABC-CLIO and Oxford University Press Announce Linking Partnership

ABC-CLIO announced today that it now links its abstracting and indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to online journals from Oxford Journals
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8 March 2004

Memorandum From OUP to the Science & Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications

Oxford Journals participated in preparation of the submissions made to the committee by Oxford University, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, and the Publisher's Association, and we support the main recommendations contained within each of these submissions. At the request of the committee, we are also submitting this short memorandum to supplement these three submissions to provide some further details regarding the main questions posed by the committee.
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18 February 2004

OUP 'Open Access' journal experiment - first results encouraging, next phase announced.

Oxford Journals' first 'Open Access' experiment, with flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), has generated valuable feedback that Oxford Journals plans to use to extend their experiment further. The original experiment entailed converting a special issue of NAR (the annual Database Issue) to open access, partially funded by author charges and with all research papers freely available online. The issue was published online in January and contains a record number of peer-reviewed papers - 142 in total - with 90% of authors agreeing to pay the £300 author charge.
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9 February 2004

Oxford Journals to publish two leading physics journals

Oxford Journals is delighted to announce the addition of two prestigious titles to its list, Radiation Protection Dosimetry (RPD) and the Journal of the ICRU. Both are currently published by Nuclear Technology Publishing (NTP), and will move to Oxford Journals in January 2004.
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3 October 2003

OUP supports Oxford University Library Services "Open Archives" Initiative

Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce a partnership with Oxford University Library Services, (OULS) in support of the national SHERPA project.
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7 August 2003

New 'Open Access' Initiative from Oxford Journals

Oxford Journals, part of Oxford University Press (OUP), is initiating an Open Access experiment with one of its flagship journals, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), recently listed by ISI as one of the top ten 'hottest' journals of the decade in biology and biochemistry. This initiative is in response to calls from the academic community to make research freely available online without the barrier of a subscription to access.
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