journals

Springer has entered into a partnership with the Society for In Vitro Biology and the International Association for Plant Biotechnology to publish two In Vitro journals.

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has created PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, said to be the first open-access journal devoted to the world’s most neglected diseases.

International Journal of Biomedical Sciences (IJBS) is a new quarterly, open-access journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in biomedical sciences, computational and systems biology.

Cell Press is launching Cell Hose & Microbe, which will focus on the interactions between microbes and their hosts.

All papers in Plant Physiology by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) members are to be published with full open access.

HFSP Publishing is launching the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences to foster communication between scientists publishing innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

Sage Publications has acquired two journals from Prime National Publishing Corporation: American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias.

Emerald Group Publishing is launching a new web portal for engineers and is offering free access to the full content on the Emerald Engineering web portal until September 2006.

Springer has begun publishing Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC), the official journal of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Elsevier has launched a new online-only oncology review journal. Update on Cancer Therapeutics will be published quarterly and is intended for clinicians working in clinical oncology and cancer therapeutics.