Libertas Academica
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. Additional journals have been published since. It has been included on a list of "predatory" open access publishers.[1]
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.
Green and Gold OA
SHERPA RoMEO has identified LA as a Green OA publisher.[2] 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.[3]
Subject home pages
Pages containing the most recent papers published in the entire set of journals are available for some subjects, including bioinformatics, biology, biomarkers, cancer, chemistry, drugs & therapeutics, genes & therapeutics, and medicine.
References
- ^ Beall, Jeffrey (April 2010). ""Predatory" Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". The Charleston Advisor. 11 (4): 10–17.
- ^ "SHERPA/RoMEO Search - Libertas Academica". Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ "Directory of open access journals: SPARC Europe and the Directory of Open Access Journals Announce the Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals". 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2009-12-14.