Bussum, Netherlands, 17 August, 2009: Chemical Abstracts Service (http://www.cas.org/), a division of the American Chemical Society, accepts to cover five more Open Access journals published by Bentham Science Publishers. The titles recently accepted to be indexed are: Open Drug Discovery Journal, Open Nuclear Medicine Journal, Open Translational Medicine Journal, Open Transport Phenomena Journal and Open Clinical Trials Journal.

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