Research Councils UK, the organization responsible for the major share of public funding for scientific research in the UK, has just published the results of an independent study that it commissioned to look at the impact of the open access policies which were introduced by individual Research Councils in 2006, and more generally to examine the impact of open access journals and open access repositories on the traditional scholarly publishing system.

Based on the results of the study, the announcement noted that the Chief Executives of the Research Councils "have agreed that over time the UK Research Councils will support increased open access, by:

• building on their mandates on grant-holders to deposit research papers in suitable repositories within an agreed time period, and;


• extending their support for publishing in open access journals, including through the pay-to-publish model."

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As part of the INSPIRE meeting at Fermilab in early May, PhysMath Central gave a brief presentation outlining our approach to fully open access publishing. View the full presentation here.

PhysMath Central will be present at the following meetings. Come and meet us for a chat about open access, or just to say hello.

From PMC Biophysics

		Research article  Three-dimensional studies of pathogenic peptides from the c-terminal of Trypanosoma cruzi ribosomal P proteins and their interaction with a monoclonal antibody structural model Osvaldo A. Martin, Myriam E. Villegas, Carlos F. Aguilar PMC Biophysics 2009, 2:4 (27 May 2009)
		Mini-review  The multiple faces of self-assembled lipidic systems Guillaume Tresset PMC Biophysics 2009, 2:3 (17 April 2009)