Dear Isabel, I strongly support and **heartily thankyou** for your email below in support of IUCr Journals. A wide range of readerships are covered, now also including IUCrJ with its articles describing results aimed at highly diverse readerships ie well beyond crystallography. I would also add that the open access fees or journal subscription costs are the most competitive ie lowest available. The small surpluses from the IUCr Journals that are made are ploughed back into the journals further development or support for student conference bursaries and community workshops. Contrast that with typically 40 % or more profits made by the commercial publishers of research. It is not a given that our community IUCr journals will simply just survive. We all need to take responsibility for ensuring that they do. Yours sincerely, John Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc Editor in Chief Acta Cryst and Chairman of the IUCr Journals Commission 1996 to 2005
> On 22 Nov 2019, at 13:58, Isabel Uson <iuf...@ibmb.csic.es> wrote: > > Dear Julie and Mathew, > > I feel advertisement on behalf of professional publishers is not appropriate > for the bulletin board. MDPI should pay for its advertisements, rather than > get them for free. (Being a for-profit firm, they should also pay for, rather > than invite editing, but this is of course personal). They stand in direct > competition with IUCr journals, which it should be in our best interest to > protect. We all profit from constant -rather than occasional- scientific > editing and the IUCr support to our community (meetings, fellowships, awards). > I know it is not the first time such a call is posted in the bb and that it > is not for me to say what is appropriate or not but I will really miss > journals from our scientific societies the day they become extinct. > Best wishes, > > Isabel > > >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:07 AM CCP4BB automatic digest system >> <lists...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> There are 2 messages totaling 363 lines in this issue. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:24:15 +0000 >> From: Julie Tucker <julie.tuc...@york.ac.uk> >> Subject: Off-topic (somewhat): Call for papers on structure-guided kinase >> drug discovery >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Mathew Martin and I would very much appreciate your contributions on the >> topic of "Recent Advances in Structure-Guided Kinase Drug Discovery" for a >> special issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences >> <http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms> (IJMS, ISSN 1422-0067, Current Impact >> Factor: 4.183). We encourage submission of both *original research articles >> and topical reviews* on all aspects of *structure-guided drug discovery >> targeting the phosphotransferase enzyme family*. We welcome accounts of >> your experiences of applying structure-guided methods of all types to the >> discovery and development of inhibitors of protein, lipid and small >> molecule kinases from bacteria to man. More information can be found here: >> https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/structure_guided_kinase. >> >> Due to its open access policy, the journal charges publication fees, >> however, please contact us directly for the chance to secure a discount on >> the usual fee. The deadline for submissions is nominally 20th April 2020, >> however, articles will be peer-reviewed and published on an ongoing basis. >> >> Our apologies to those of you with no interest in kinase drug discovery, >> and our heartfelt thanks to any of you who feel moved to contact us to >> discuss potential contributions. Please also feel free to pass this >> invitation on to any interested colleagues. >> >> Best wishes, >> Julie Tucker and Mathew Martin >> -- >> Julie Tucker >> York Biomedical Research Institute >> Department of Biology and HYMS >> University of York >> Heslington >> YORK >> YO10 5DD >> >> Tel. 01904 328912 >> >> >> Co-guest editor of "Recent Advances in Structure-Guided Kinase Drug >> Discovery >> <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/structure_guided_kinase>" >> >> A special issue of *International Journal of Molecular Sciences* >> <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms> (IF 4.183) (ISSN 1422-0067). >> >> Email disclaimer >> <https://www.york.ac.uk/about/legal-statements/email-disclaimer/> >> >> ######################################################################## >> > > > -- > ICREA Res. Prof. Isabel Usón > Crystallographic Methods > Department of Structural Biology (“Maria de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence), > Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spanish Research Council; > Barcelona Science Park, Helix Building, 08028 Barcelona (Spain) > http://chango.ibmb.csic.es/ARCIMBOLDO > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
