A new online science journal aimed at changing the paradigm of scholarly publishing has proved so popular it's been mired in a crush of traffic since its Sunday night launch. The inaugural issue of ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce that the first journal it launched, Research, has received its inaugural Journal Impact Factor, 11.036, ranking it #10 among 73 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can now pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online.

An online publisher that offers its science journals free on the Internet has begun asking authors to pay a $500 fee to have their articles published. The publisher, BioMed Central, says it hopes ...