World Scientific and Imperial College Press Open Access Option

["Mun Kit, CHEW" <mkchew@wspc.com.sg>]

**All World Scientific and Imperical College Press Journals
to Offer Open Access Option**

Authors now have the option to pay $2,500 for their articles to 
be Open Access. Open access choice will apply to ALL of World 
Scientific and Imperial College Press journals with electronic 
version.

World Scientific and Imperial College Press is aware of the 
scientifc community's desire for more open access publications so 
that scientific information can be shared by all. Thus, We have 
decided to offer authors the choice to do so. Nearly 6,000 
Research articles every year will now have the potential to be 
open access.

More infomration may be found here:
<http://www.worldscinet.com/authors/openaccess.shtml>

**New Open Access Journal- Optics and Photonics Letters**

World Scientific is also happy to announce that we will be 
launching our first fully open access journal, Optics and 
Photonics Letters in 2008. Optics and Photonics Letters (OPL) is 
an open access journal which offers rapid dissemination of 
original and timely results in various fields of optics and 
photonics, with emphasis on peer-reviewed short communications.

Articles submitted for publication before January 2008 will enjoy 
a 50% waiver on publication charges. Please visit 
<http://www.worldscinet.com/opl> to find out!


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About World Scientific Publishing

World Scientific Publishing Company is a leading independent 
scientific publisher.

Among the company's notable successes was its being awarded the 
exclusive rights in 1991 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm to 
publish (in English) the entire series of Nobel lectures from 
1971 to 1990 and to distribute them worldwide. Subsequently, 
World Scientific again obtained the rights to publish the 
complete series of Nobel lectures delivered from 1901 to 2000.

Annually, World Scientific publishes 400 titles a year and 100 
journals in various fields.

In 1995, World Scientific co-founded the London-based Imperial 
College Press with London University's Imperial College. The 
Press publishes mainly in the fields in which Imperial College 
itself is particularly well-known, such as Engineering, Medicine, 
Information Technology, Environmental Technology, and Management 
Sciences. Imperial College Press has published about 500 books 
and 8 journals to date.

Contact:
Mun Kit CHEW (Mr)
mkchew@wspc.com