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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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12 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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