A new open access journal of interest to the bioinformatics community, DATABASE - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, will be released in January, 2009 . The online-only journal is now accepting submissions for publication.

The journal seeks to provide a platform for novel ideas in database research surrounding biological information and will reportedly cover only open-access databases.

As described on the Oxford Journals web site:

Huge volumes of primary data are currently archived in numerous open-access databases, and with new generation technologies becoming more common in laboratories, large datasets will become even more prevalent than today. The archiving, curation, analysis and understanding of all of this data is a challenge.

The journal will publish:
- Detailed descriptions of databases, and database tools, in the broad arena of biology
- Shorter papers describing significant updates to established databases
- Objective reviews of complementary and ancillary databases and database tools
- User tutorials
- Methodology and technical notes on database development