Funding of Animal Production Science - special issue “Muscle metabolism
| Project start date: | 01 November 2013 |
| Project end date: | 30 June 2014 |
| Publication date: | 30 June 2014 |
| Project status: | Completed |
| Livestock species: | Sheep, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle |
Summary
MLA supported a number of research projects between 2006 and 2011 in a significant initiative to address the industry problem of heat toughening. This work was published in a special edition of the journal 'Animal Production Science' and comprised 18 papers. Although the findings of each project had been presented to the industry in individual presentations or final reports, publication in a respected journal was a very effective way of firstly communicating the individual outcomes and secondly communicating the whole initiative and its relevance to the industry and to academia.
As the predominant means of accessing journals is electronic, it was proposed to make access as easy and as widespread as possible by providing open access, which allowed free download by any reader. The project funded the rendering all papers in the special issue as open access.
