Industrial Biotechnology Journal Celebrates Inaugural Year by Providing Free Online Access
New Rochelle, NY, January 10, 2006—Industrial Biotechnology, the premier publication in and voice of this important, emerging field, is celebrating its inaugural year by releasing the entire first year’s volume for complimentary online access through March 15, 2006, at www.indbiotech.com/issues. An authoritative, multidisciplinary news and peer-reviewed research publication, the Journal is published by GEN Publishing Inc., a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., company (www.liebertpub.com).
Industrial biotechnology applies classical and new biotechnology methods to improve environmental sustainability, reduce costs, and increase efficiency of manufacturing processes in every sector, and is predicted to have a sweeping impact on global industries as diverse as bioenergy to pulp and paper to textiles to foods.
Industrial Biotechnology is a media sponsor of the BIO Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, which begins tomorrow in Honolulu, Hawaii (January 11-13). One focus will be the critical field of alternative energy sources, which Industrial Biotechnology seeks to advance.
“Recent developments in enzyme discovery and improvement are a harbinger for worldwide adoption of new, more productive biofuel technologies that use agriculture crop wastes as feedstocks. These have the potential to end international competition for finite fossil fuel supplies, as nations develop novel, locally available sources of energy,” says Brent Erickson, Executive VP of the Industrial and Environmental Section of BIO, and Industrial Biotechnology’s Consulting Editor.
“Industrial Biotechnology is an important, forerunner publication in the field, presenting scientific developments that foster the dialogue needed among policymakers, financiers, and researchers to advance these important technologies through to commercialization.”
In addition to reducing global climate-change emissions, industrial biotechnology is also permitting novel means of manufacturing existing consumer products and of developing altogether new “green” consumer products, advancing sustainable economic development, Erickson adds.