Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Journal of Biology đề tài: The electronic version of this article is the complete. | J. Biol. Journal of Biology BioMed Central Editorial Published 16 January 2004 Journal of Biology 2004 3 1 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http content 3 1 1 2004 BioMed Central Ltd The year 2003 was a historic one for the Open Access movement. It saw the debut of Public Library of Science as a publisher with the much-heralded launch of PLoS Biology and declarations of support from funding bodies in numerous countries around the world. In the United Kingdom the charitable Wellcome Trust joined the funding council for universities and the National Health Service in making a commitment to support and promote Open Access for the research it sponsors. Similarly elsewhere in Europe the Max-Planck Society led the way and was joined by most major funders of research in Germany France and beyond in signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. The last year also saw increasing numbers of authors voting in the way that counts with the submission of their precious research articles to support Open Access. BioMed Central the publisher of Journal of Biology now publishes more than 100 Open Access journals and to date these have considered more than 8 000 articles and published more than 4 000. But different journals within the BioMed Central stable have different editorial policies and standards. Journal of Biology which completed its first full year of publication in 2003 was the first fully Open Access journal publishing articles of exceptional interest and importance from the full spectrum of biology since launch it has received over 250 submissions and has accepted fewer than 5 of them for publication. We are committed to ensuring that Journal of Biology is a prestigious place to publish and this means exercising a high degree of selectivity in deciding what is published in the journal. Some readers and potential authors have asked whether the journal isn t rather too selective and why it doesn t simply .
