Libertas Academica is an open access academic journal publisher specializing in the biological sciences and clinical medicine.
Background
Libertas Academica, referred to as "LA", is a publisher of open access ("OA") scientific, technical and medical journals. It is privately funded and was founded specifically to publish OA journals. It was established in late 2004 with the launch of two journals, Evolutionary Bioinformatics and Cancer Informatics . 2006, 2007, and 2008 saw the development of an additional set of journals. A full current list of journals published by LA is available from the publisher's home page.
Journal indexing and archiving
As they become suitable indexing on DOAJ, Pubmed and MEDLINE is sought for all journals, as is archiving in PubMed Central. Articles also appear on indexes and repositories including OAIster and Pubget. The publisher offers an Open_Archives_Initiative_Protocol_for_Metadata_Harvesting.
News blog
The Publisher maintains a blog which contains latest news pertaining to journals.
Submission of manuscripts
Submissions are accepted for journals' general annual issues at anytime. Many journals also contain special issues with advertised submission deadlines. Authors can monitor the status of their submissions through LA's author interface, My LA. Peer review generally takes two weeks although it can vary between one and three weeks.
Green and Gold OA
SHERPA RoMEO has identified LA as a Green OA publisher. This means that authors are permitted to archive their work prior to and after publication. LA is also a gold OA publisher because all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.
Copyright
All articles, including meta-data and supplementary files, are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license (often referred to as the "CC-BY" license.) This means that:
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
All journals fully indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal owing to the use of this copyright policy.
Aids for readers
All journals offer:
- An opt-in email newsletter containing notification of papers published in the previous week
- An RSS feed
- Endnote reference exportation
- Social bookmarking
- Commenting on articles
- Reprints of articles
Twitter:
Selected journals offer notification of new articles by Twitter. Twitter feeds are also available for the subject home pages, news blog and the combined new articles list. A full list of Twitter pages for journals is available.
Calls for papers
Calls for papers are periodically issued by Editors in Chief. Calls for papers are published on the Latest News Blog
Subject home pages
Pages containing the most recent papers published in similar areas are available for some subjects:
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Biology
- Cancer
- Chemistry
- Drugs and Therapeutics
- Genes
- Medicine
Widget
A widget which allows users to place a dynamic list of the latest articles published in a specified journal on any web page is available.
External links
- Interview with Libertas Academica Publisher Tom Hill
- Latest News Blog
Journals
Note: this list was last updated on 7 August 2009. For a full list of journals visit the publisher's website
- Advances in Tumor Virology (Editor in Chief: Dr Frank J Jenkins, started in 2009)
- Analytical Chemistry Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Gabor Patonay, started in 2006)
- Air, Soil and Water Research (Editor in Chief: Dr Carlos Alberto Martinez-Huitle, started in 2008)
- Autism Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Anthony J Russo, started in 2009)
- Biochemistry Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Gabor Mocz, started in 2008)
- Bioinformatics and Biology Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Erich Bornberg-Bauer, started in 2007)
- Biomarker Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Stephen F Kingsmore, started in 2006)
- Biomarkers in Cancer (Editor in Chief: Dr Barbara Guinn, started in 2009)
- Biomedical Informatics Insights (formerly Medical Informatics Insights) (Editor in Chief: Dr John P. Pestian, started in 2007)
- Bone and Tissue Regeneration Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Kerstin Rolfe, started in 2008)
- Breast Cancer: Basic and Clinical Research (Editor in Chief: Dr Goberdhan P. Dimri, started in 2007)
- Cancer Growth and Metastasis (Editor in Chief: Dr Marc D Basson, started in 2008)
- Cancer Informatics (Editor in Chief: Dr James Willey, started in 2005)
- Cell & Tissue Transplantation and Therapy (Editor in Chief: Dr David T Harris, started in 2008)
- Cell Biology Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Jianping Xu, started in 2008)
- Clinical Medicine: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders (Editor in Chief: Dr Tariq M. Haqqi, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Blood Disorders (Editor in Chief: Dr Robert E. Richard, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Cardiology (Editor in Chief: Dr Martin M. LeWinter, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Case Reports (Editor in Chief: Dr Karna Dev Bardhan, started in 2008)
- Clinical Medicine: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine (Editor in Chief: Dr Hussein D Foda, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Dermatology (Editor in Chief: Dr Robert Pearl, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Ear, Nose and Throat (Editor in Chief: Dr Liu Xue Zhong, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes (Editor in Chief: Dr Victor Gault, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Gastroenterology (Editor in Chief: Dr Tushar Patel, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Geriatrics (Editor in Chief: Dr Chih-Hung Chang, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Oncology (Editor in Chief: Dr William CS Cho, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Pathology (Editor in Chief: Dr Dama Laxminarayana, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics (Editor in Chief: Dr Pietro Galassetti, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Psychiatry (Editor in Chief: Dr Jaswinder Kaur Ghuman, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Reproductive Health (Editor in Chief: Dr Zeev Blumenfeld, started in 2008)
- Clinical Medicine: Therapeutics (Editor in Chief: Dr Garry Walsh, started in 2009)
- Clinical Medicine: Trauma and Intensive Medicine (Editor in Chief: Dr Alistair Tindall, started in 2008)
- Clinical Medicine: Urology (Editor in Chief: Dr Xiangyi Lu, started in 2007)
- Clinical Medicine: Women's Health (Editor in Chief: Dr Susan Richman, started in 2008)
- Drug Target Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Monica Milani, started in 2006)
- Environmental Health Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Timothy Kelley, started in 2008)
- Evolutionary Bioinformatics (Editor in Chief: Dr Dennis Wall, started in 2005)
- Gene Expression to Genetical Genomics (Editor in Chief: Dr Shiva Singh, started in 2008)
- Gene Regulation and Systems Biology (Editor in Chief: Dr James Willey, started in 2007)
- Genetics & Epigenetics (Editor in Chief: Dr Christian Bronner, started in 2008)
- Genomics Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, started in 2008)
- Health Aging & Clinical Care in the Elderly (Editor in Chief: Dr David Simar, started in 2008)
- Health Services Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Jarold Cosby, started in 2008)
- Immunology and Immunogenetics Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Darren Flower, started in 2008)
- Infectious Diseases: Research and Treatment (Editor in Chief: Dr Douglas MacPherson, started in 2008)
- Integrative Medicine Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Steve Gurgevich, started in 2006)
- International Journal of Insect Science (Editor in Chief: Dr Helen Hull-Sanders, started in 2008)
- International Journal of Tryptophan Research (Editor in Chief: Dr Gilles Guillemin, started in 2008)
- Journal of Brain Disease (Editor in Chief: Dr Bart Demaerschalk, started in 2008)
- Journal of Cell Death (Editor in Chief: Dr Garry Walsh, started in 2008)
- Journal of Experimental Neuroscience (Editor in Chief: Dr Raphael Pinaud, started in 2008)
- Lipid Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Tim Levine, started in 2008)
- Magnetic Resonance Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Sendhil Velan, started in 2008)
- Medical Equipment Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Irfan Ahmed, started in 2008)
- Microbiology Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Raúl Rivas, started in 2008)
- Nutrition and Metabolic Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Dexter Canoy, started in 2008)
- Open Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Editor in Chief: Dr Hendrick Barner, started in 2008)
- Organic Chemistry Insights (Editor in Chief: Dr Hafiz Ahmed, started i
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