Libertas Academica (LA) is an open access

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specializing in the

biological sciences Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

and

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. It was acquired by SAGE Publications in September 2016.

Background

Libertas Academica is a publisher of open access ("OA") scientific, technical and medical journals. It is privately funded and was founded specifically to publish OA journals. It was established in late 2004 with the launch of two journals, ''Evolutionary Bioinformatics'' and ''Cancer Informatics''. Additional journals have been published since. It was included on a list of "predatory" open access publishers in 2010 but later removed. In 2013, a sham study reporting that a compound isolated from lichen can kill cancer cells was submitted to one of the journals published by Libertas for peer review. After review, the sham study was correctly rejected for publication.

Journal indexing and archiving

As articles become suitable, indexing on DOAJ,

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, and

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is sought for all journals, as is archiving in

PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center fo ...

. Articles also appear on indexes and repositories, including

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and

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. The publisher offers an

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Green and Gold OA

SHERPA/RoMEO has identified LA as a Green OA publisher. This means that authors are permitted to archive their work prior to and after publication. LA is also a gold OA publisher because all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.

Copyright

All articles, including meta-data and supplementary files, are published under the

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license (often referred to as the "CC-BY" license). This means that:

Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.

All journals fully indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the

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Seal owing to the use of this copyright policy.

Subject home pages

Pages containing the most recent papers published in the entire set of journals are available for some subjects, including bioinformatics,

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

biomarkers In biomedical contexts, a biomarker, or biological marker, is a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition. Biomarkers are often measured and evaluated using blood, urine, or soft tissues to examine normal biological processes, pa ...

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

, chemistry, drugs & therapeutics, genes & therapeutics, and

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

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