UK Presses Ahead with Open-Access Policy (GenomeWeb Daily News)

Science publishers also may begin to face more competition from new journals based entirely on the open-access model, such as eLife, a journal being developed by the Wellcome Trust, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and The Max Planck Society that is to launch later this year.

The goal behind eLife is to create an open-access journal that will compete for research papers of the highest order with journals such as Cell and Nature. Read on.