About the Journal
AIMS AND SCOPE
Huge volumes of primary data are currently archived in numerous open-access databases, and with new generation technologies becoming more common in laboratories, large datasets will become even more prevalent than today. The archiving, curation, analysis and understanding of all of this data is a challenge.
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation provides a platform for the presentation of novel ideas in database research surrounding biological information, and aims to help strengthen the bridge between database developers and users.
The journal will publish:
• Detailed descriptions of databases, and database tools, in the broad arena of biology - authors are strongly encouraged to include a biological discovery or a 'testable' hypothesis in their paper
• Shorter papers describing significant updates to established databases
• Objective reviews of complementary and ancillary databases and database tools
• User tutorials
• Methodology and technical notes on database development
Descriptions of databases in all areas of biology are welcomed, including biological chemistry, genomics, proteomics, glycomics, molecular biology, biomedicine, physiology, ecology, zoology, and taxonomy.
HOW TO CITE DATABASE ARTICLES
Database offers rapid online-only publication. Individual articles will be published online, in final ‘Version of Record’ form, as soon as they are ready.
Under this model articles are uniquely identified by an article number and DOI rather than volume/issue/page numbers. Database articles should be cited using their volume and article number, as follows:
{author names}. {article title}. {journal title} {year of publication}; Vol. {number}: article ID {ID}, {DOI}
For example:
Maria C. Costanzo, Marek S. Skrzypek, Robert Nash, Edith Wong, Gail Binkley, Stacia R. Engel, Benjamin Hitz, Eurie L. Hong, J. Michael Cherry, and the Saccharomyces Genome Database Project. New mutant phenotype data curation system in the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Database (2009) Vol. 2009: article ID bap001; doi:10.1093/database/bap001.
OPEN ACCESS
All Database content is published under an open access model. Database articles will therefore be freely available to everybody online, upon publication, without the barrier of paid subscription to access.
Under this model, the journal’s costs are covered by author publication charges of £800/€1200/$1600 per article.
Database articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial licence . This means that users of Database articles are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate or display these articles for non-commercial purposes provided that:
1. the original authorship is properly and fully attributed;
2. the journal and publisher are attributed as the original place of publication with correct citation details given;
3. if an original work is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this is clearly indicated;
The Oxford Journals Permissions team can be contacted regarding commercial reuse of Database articles.
As well as being freely available immediately via the journal web site, Database articles will be automatically deposited in PubMed Central and UK PubMed Central by Oxford Journals, and made freely available via these resources upon publication. This means that publishing in Database is fully compliant with e.g. the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access policy and the HHMI, UK MRC and Wellcome Trust policies on open access. Authors wishing to comply with these policies need not take further action.
