Paul Jackson of Boston, MA was the winner of our PMC Biophysics 'invent a slogan' competition - to capture the essence of the scope of the journal and the nature of open access in one or two words. Previous t-shirts had slogans such as 'accelerate change' for PMC Physics A and 'open access matters' for PMC Physics B. Paul came up with 'unconstrained'. We liked this as - apart from it's obvious link to pendant groups being free to wiggle about - it also gets across the idea of unconstrained access to the article and data and also the fact that the author is not constrained by traditions of print journals as they are free to publish as much supporting data, video and applications as they wish. Thus, it was an easy decision in the end.

Sorry to the others, but Paul, you should have your t-shirts very soon. And PMC Biophysics will be publishing its first articles around the same time.

Heather Morrisson estimates that just 2 years the proportion of scientific articles published in 'gold' open access journals will double to 9.3%, with 19.4% being freely-available within 12 months of publication.

The Research Information Network and Universities UK have set up a working group to look at the arrangements of paying open access publication fees. The group includes representatives from the library, publishing and research administrator communities, and they will be looking at the issues to be addressed in establishing coordinated and strategic approaches to the payment of publication fees and aim to provide practical guidance on the implementation of such an approach.

Round-up of links we have recently loved - 22 September
Open access at Elsevier: Is it really? - 23 September
A wiki of formalized mathematics - 24 September