JBC offers an open access option

In a welcome move, the Journal of Biological Chemistry has announced that in addition to their free-access papers in press feature, they will now allow authors to elect (for a fee) an "Author's Choice Publication Option." Essentially this allows authors to have their work immediately available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (not quite as open as the PLoS Journals, but certainly not bad). It appears in their instructions to authors that copyright is still transferred to ASBMB for all manuscripts, though.

I've published some of the work that I am most proud of in JBC, and it is great to see them making open access an option for authors.