Two Journals of CLoS, Chinese Science Bulletin and Science China Life Sciences to be published as OA journals
Starting in 2011, Chinese Science Bulletin and Science China Life Sciences, co-published by Science China Press (SCP) and Springer, will be transformed into Open Access journals. Both journals are part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science (CLoS), a collection comprising more than 90 journals, with their content available online in a full-text database at www.springerlink.com.
Ever since Chinese Science Bulletin and Science China Life Sciences formally started publication, through internationalized management and organization, both journals have respectively organized the editorial boards made up of famous experts and scholars from related fields and have guaranteed high academic standards of the articles as well as the effective, manuscript review processes.
Yongchao Shi, Chief Editor at SCP, said, “We have considered how to best distribute high quality research papers to the widest audience globally. With this challenge in mind, we have converted Chinese Science Bulletin and Science China Life Sciences to OA journals from 2011.”
Lu Ye, Editorial director China at Springer, said, “We had very successful collaboration with Science China Press in past 5 years. The Open Access publishing of two SCP journals signifies the new stage of the cooperation and will definitely increase the global visibility of high quality researches out of China.”
Science China Press is a scientific journal publishing company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SCP publishes 17 titles of academic journals of which 9 in English. These journals are sponsored both by CAS and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Among those journals, Science China Series (8 journals) and Chinese Science Bulletin are included in CLoS.
Springer is a leading global scientific publisher of books and journals, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services. It publishes close to 500 academic and professional society journals. Springer is part of the publishing group Springer Science+Business Media. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,000 employees.
