UCL Open: Environment now indexed in PubMed Central!
Posted on 10th November, 2023
We are delighted to announce that, following a rigorous evaluation process, UCL Open Environment has been accepted for indexing in PubMed Central. Researchers wishing to publish in the journal and funded by the Wellcome Trust, MRC and BBSRC, NIHR and the NIH (as well as many others all across the world) will meet open access policy requirements and be indexed automatically in the PubMed Central database and the Europe PMC database.
A science journal with the broadest of scope, UCL Open Environment (UCLOE) publishes multi-disciplinary research that uniquely crosses conventional boundaries (between disciplines and many different kinds of communities in the academic, business and social spheres) to facilitate and accelerate progress. UCLOE is for any researcher or professional at knowledge-based universities, institutions, and organisations (including Non-Government Organisations, Think Tanks, Inter-Government Organisations, and the United Nations) working broadly across environment-related research, covering climate change, the character and functioning of the environment, Planetary Health (its resources and limits), public health grounded in environmental factors, and the environment in which people live.
Professor Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief of UCLOE, said: “This is a really important milestone for the journal with its clear open access, open peer-review policies and process. Now the journal is indexed in PubMed Central, authors are better enabled to meet funder publishing requirements effortlessly, whilst publishing multidisciplinary environment-related research – which often lacks an outlet for publication – in an open, transparent, and accountable way that is much needed in today’s world.”
Launched in 2019, UCLOE aims to reduce many of these publication barriers and bring together to enable and accelerate the publication of the most critical thinking on environment-related topics: from the most renowned researchers, through to innovative and emerging new voices; on all aspects of the environment. Unlike typical, single disciplinary journals, UCLOE is the only dedicated multidisciplinary environmental open science journal that publishes broadly across all environment-related subjects, at little or no cost to the researcher, and now indexed in PubMed Central.
It is our hope that more contributors, funded and not, throughout the world, will take up this opportunity to publish their research in UCLOE, in an open, transparent, accountable and equitable way.
Read more about the journal at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/ as well as all publications via PubMed Central at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/4433.