Athena Healthcare, Dove Medical Press Enter Into Alliance

Dove has appointed Athena as its exclusive partner for Mainland China and Hong Kong, and is expected to work together to enhance the opportunities for publishing clinical research/basic science and extend medical communications within the healthcare communities.

Kevin Toale, director of Dove Medical Press, said: “Working with Athena is an ideal way for us to further improve our service to authors in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The rate of publication growth in China is the fastest in the world. The peer-reviewed open access publishing model operated by Dove, with the support of Athena, will provide even more authors with the potential to reach a wider audience and readership in a faster publication time frame, whilst maintaining the absolute standards of quality.

“The alliance with Dove Medical Press is a perfect and logical extension to our current Contract Research Organisation (CRO) services. Through our extensive network in the medical and scientific community we will now also be able to offer Chinese authors the opportunity of publishing their papers on Dove’s open access model. This arrangement will allow Chinese scientists to share their research and scientific progress with an even broader audience of peers. We are confident that Dove Medical Press will have the same success in China as in other parts of the world.”