Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Springer are launching the Natural Products and Bioprospecting (NPAB), which will be published as fully sponsored open access journal and included to the SpringerOpen portfolio. The journal is part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science (CLoS), a collection comprising more than 90 journals. Starting in August 2011, the journal will be available on Springer’s online platform www.springerlink.com.

 

The journal serves as the international forum for essential research on all branches of natural products, including plant biochemistry, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, biosynthesis and microbiological transformation, fermentation and plant tissue cultures and bioprospecting of natural products. The journal is managed and organized by international editorial boards, made up of renowned experts and scholars, who guarantee the high academic standards of the articles and support an expeditious manuscript-review process. Published under the SpringerOpen model, the journal’s contents will be fully and immediately open access, available to anyone with an Internet connection.

 

Ji-Kai Liu, Chief Editor at NPAB, said, “We believe that natural products have great potential as a significant source for new drugs and new agrochemicals or lead compounds, and as tools for pathway screening and target identification. We will distribute high quality research papers to the widest audience globally. With this challenge in mind, we launched Natural Products and Bioprospecting as Open Access journal from 2011.”

 

Lu Ye, Editorial Director China at Springer, said, “We are glad that our collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been further strengthened by the publishing of this new SpringerOpen journal. With the commitment of both the editorial board and Springer, I am confident that NPAB will become one of the most important journals in its filed in the years to come.”

 

SpringerOpen journals (www.springeropen.com) are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which facilitates the open distribution of copyrighted work. According to this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights.

 

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is one of the leading institutes for the research of natural products, and plant diversity and resources. State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China in KIB is one of the biggest and important research bases on natural products. Every year more than 400 novel natural products with new structures or new biological activities have been discovered.

 

Springer is a leading global scientific publisher of books and journals, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services. It publishes close to 500 academic and professional society journals. Springer is part of the publishing group Springer Science+Business Media. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and more than 5,000 employees worldwide.

 

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Natural Products and Bioprospecting

 

ISSN: 2192-2195 (print version), ISSN: 2192-2209 (electronic version)

 

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