Open access and closed options

Open access and closed options

Let’s start with some news. We recently announced that EMBO, together with Nature Publishing Group, will launch next year an open-access, author-pays journal called Molecular Systems Biology. Two reasons guided our decision: we believe that journals publishing data-intense papers—such as those in systems biology— should be open access so that the information can be shared and mined by the scien...

Commentary: open access, open business, closed fairness!

A strong trend to move from print to online publication is largely perceived in scientific and nonscientific fields. A growing number of publishers increasingly opt for online publication as an option or a compulsory alternative. From readers' perspective, this is a highly appreciated facility, but from the author's, things are different mainly because of excessive article processing charges (A...

Veterinary Record Open: extending the open access options

Email for correspondence: [email protected] Welcome to Veterinary Record Open, a new open access research journal we are pleased to launch as part of the BVA group of journals. These are exciting times for veterinary publishing with an opportunity to publish well-designed and well-reported research in a completely accessible manner. We accept all submissions relating to veterinary resear...

Open access journals: open for rich, closed for poor.

Open, Closed, and Shared Access Femtocells in the Downlink

A fundamental choice in femtocell deployments is the set of users which are allowed to access each femtocell. Closed access restricts the set to specifically registered users, while open access allows any mobile subscriber to use any femtocell. Which one is preferable depends strongly on the distance between the macrocell base station (MBS) and femtocell. The main results of the paper are lemma...