acta crystallographica section e
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Acta Crystallographica Section EStructure Reports Online
Peter StricklandInternational Union of Crystallography
• Promote international cooperation in crystallography
• Promote international publication of crystallographic research
• Contribute to the advancement of crystallography
• Facilitate international standardization of methods, of units, of nomenclature and of symbols used in crystallography
• Form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences
Aims of the IUCr
The IUCr acts as a small not-for-profit publisher
We publish eight journals...
We also provide the Crystallography Journals Online
service
and publish International Tables
for Crystallography...
Acta Cryst. E launched in January 2000
Innovative features included rotating molecule on the cover, assessment of
structure quality and published validation reports
Aimed at providing an easy and rapid method for crystallographers to publish structures
Journal publication based on submission of data and article in CIF format
Acta Cryst. E launched in January 2000
Innovative features included rotating molecule on the cover, assessment of
structure quality and published validation reports
Aimed at providing an easy and rapid method for crystallographers to publish structures
Journal publication based on submission of data and article in CIF format
We were encouraged to start hybrid open-access publishing in 2004 by the
availability of JISC funding
From 2004 to 2007, we published our eight journals as hybrid open-access
journals...
Our positive experience with hybrid open access together with the unprecedented growth of Acta Crystallographica Section E (without equivalent
growth in subscription income) led us in 2006/2007 to consider converting this journal to full open
access
Keep with original principle to get as many structures as possible into the literature
Low author fee but financially sustainable
Journal redesigned, author tools, automation, validation reports
Moved to full open access in January 2008. Submissions much better than planned
All our income now comes from article processing charges ...
The open-access fee for Acta Crystallographica Section E is USD 150
but income is scaleable with the number of submissions…
and more than 95% of our authors pay the full fee...
Open bibliography project (Unilever Centre, Cambridge)
Chemical indexing (Chemrefer)
Various text mining projects
The IUCr is interested in participating in projects that utilise the open-access content in Acta
Crystallographica Section E...
Unexpected opportunities
Acta Crystallographica Section E
open access, low author fees, high quality
Peter Strickland ([email protected])