Bioscience Horizons (ISSN:1754-7431) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal publishing outstanding undergraduate and master’s international research in the biosciences free of charge. 
The journal produces insightful and original research articles that disseminate bioscience awareness to the general public and contribute to scientific progress. Our submissions come from all around the world.

 

Bioscience horizons is a UCL project in association with UCLpress. The journal is managed by UCL students supervised by a board of academics from different universities in the UK.

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All articles published in Bioscience Horizons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 international licence agreement (read the licence here) and published open access, making them immediately and freely available to read and download. The CC-BY licence agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work.

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Further information regarding this can be found here and licensing terms and conditions can be found in the UCL Open Access Student Journal’s Editorial Policy.

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Bioscience Horizons operates double-blind peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during the review. Authors should submit an anonymous version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review. Further information regarding peer review can be found on the editorial policy pages.

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As mentioned above, UCL Open Access Student Journals do not levy an Article-Processing Charge (APC) for submission or publication in Bioscience Horizons. Contributors to Bioscience Horizons will not be required to make an APC payment for the submission or publication of their article.

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