F1000Research is an open access journal for life scientists.

An increasing number of libraries provide hosting services for open access journals.

There is a concern that the perception of open access journals do not have the same reputation, which will lead to less publishing.

The electronic edition was available without charge, as an open access journal, but since 2008 this is no longer the case.

Creative Commons licenses are used by many open access journals.

Which makes it no different than the thousands of existing open access journals.

It is a hybrid open access journal and authors may choose to pay a fee to make articles available free of charge.

The related open access journal, Sexual Medicine, was launched in 2013.

Since 2009, it has become an online-only open access journal, freely available to anyone.

In 1999 it was the first open access journal focussing on zoology.