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 27 FEBRUARY 2013 First specialist bioscience journals to appear in Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP)The Portal provides a single point of access for journal usage statistics. JUSP initially focused on NESLi2 publishers but its remit has since been extended to include a wider range of publishers whose content is important to researchers in the UK's higher education community and now includes Portland Press Limited. The Portal uses the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol to collect the COUNTER compliant statistics, which are then displayed to each institution in an easy to read way. 18 FEBRUARY 2013 PORTLAND PRESS LIMITED ANNOUNCE LICENCE AGREEMENT WITH CHINESE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIBRARYWe are delighted to confirm we have recently signed an agreement with the Chinese National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) for country-wide online access to journals within their portfolio. Negotiations were facilitated by The Charlesworth Group who are leading agents for the licensing of content into major consortia in China. 01 FEBRUARY 2013 Portland Press adopts Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for Open Access papersPortland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has today announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two Gold Open Access journals ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports. This allows authors to comply fully with recent changes in funding body policies. This change in licensing arrangements also applies to papers published under the Opt2Pay (Gold Open Access) option in Portland Press's hybrid journals, which include the long-standing, core title the Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions and the clinical research publication Clinical Science. 28 JANUARY 2013 PORTLAND PRESS PRESERVES E-JOURNAL CONTENT WITH PORTICO AND THE CLOCKSS ARCHIVEPortland Press Limited is pleased to announce that it has signed agreements with both CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and Portico to ensure its e-journal content is deposited securely within these trusted dark-archives and preserved for future generations. Caroline Black, Managing Director of Portland Press, said: "It is important as a non-profit publisher that we can offer perpetual access to the research submitted to us through our journals and we are committed to ensuring the long-term accessibility of the research entrusted to our titles. Both the CLOCKSS and PORTICO initiatives enable us to guarantee the conservation of this content so that it can be securely archived and made widely available through academic institutions and recognized portals." 22 November 2012 Portland Press Limited to relocate customer and client service operations to LondonPortland Press Limited has announced that it will move its customer and client service operations, Portland Customer Services, along with its IT, marketing and sales operations, to its London headquarters from the current Colchester base by the end of 2013. This will allow the integration of these operations with the publishing, membership, conference and educational activities that are carried out in London. This transition, together with other operational improvements, is designed to enhance and improve support for the organization’s valued clients, through an even more efficient, streamlined and cohesive service. October 2012 Journals and e-resources from Portland Press LimitedPortland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publisher of the Biochemical Society, is pleased to offer your faculty and students 24/7 access to a wealth of ground breaking original research and authoritative reviews in the biochemical, cellular and molecular biosciences. Our portfolio of products for 2013 is now available online and presents the most recent information on our journals and e-resources. Portland Press offers a complete bespoke package service, which can be tailored to your specific requirements and seeks to offer a best-fit solution to enhance your molecular bioscience portfolio. With flexible licensing options and newly digitized archives, we offer excellent value for money for institutions that need continual access to the highest quality, peer-reviewed journals online. 1 June 2012 BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS INTRODUCES NEW "GATEWAYS"For more than forty years, the exciting science presented at the Biochemical Society Annual Symposium, Focused Meetings and Society-supported Independent Meetings has been captured in Biochemical Society Transactions as a series of mini-reviews – the quality of the science is reflected in the Journal's current Impact Factor of 3.989. The Journal provides researchers with a timely snapshot of the latest developments across a range of topics in the cellular and molecular biosciences and is an essential teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The extensive Biochemical Society Transactions archive has been digitized and is available online to all members of the Biochemical Society and subscribers to the journal. The archive, which extends back to 1973, includes Medal Lectures from the many eminent molecular bioscientists who have been recognized by the Biochemical Society for notable achievements in their respective fields, as well as papers from the hundreds of esteemed researchers who have presented their work at the Society's meetings over the decades. To facilitate discovery within this unrivalled collection in the molecular biosciences, Portland Press Limited has redeveloped the Biochemical Society Transactions website by introducing Gateways – new themed collections within the online journal:
View the press release APRIL 2012 CELL SIGNALLING BIOLOGY - UPDATES NOW LIVEWe are pleased to announce our free online resource Cell Signalling Biology has been updated with the latest information. Cell Signalling Biology is a major contribution to the field of cell signalling by one of the world's leading experts, Professor Sir Michael Berridge (Cambridge). This online resource is sponsored by the Biochemical Journal's Signal Knowledge Environment ensuring that online access is freely available to all. Updates are now live, including extensive additions on: membrane and protein trafficking, endocytosis, motor proteins, Rab and Arf signalling, cell differentiation, brain regions, neural circuits and hippocampal regions, and disease processes (in particular schizophrenia and insulin resistance). MARCH 2012 BIOSCIENCE REPORTS TO CONVERT TO FULL OPEN ACCESSThe Biochemical Society is pleased to announce that its peer-reviewed journal, Bioscience Reports will be accepting submissions for open access from 2nd April with the first full open access issue available from August 2012. JANUARY 2012 Professor Rhian Touyz appointed as Editor-in-Chief for Clinical ScienceProfessor Rhian Touyz has succeeded Professor Clinton Webb as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Science. 
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