Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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More than 50 medical and scientific non-profit publishers, representing more than 120 journals, have offered the National Institutes of Health access to their contents free of charge through their current links to the NIH's PubMed Central data archive. The links actually have existed for more than six years, but only a few journals have offered all of their contents -- newly released and older articles alike -- to non-subscribers for free. The journals embracing this policy for the first time will provide access to studies in plant science, dairy science, dentistry, entomology and ornithology in addition to new areas of biomedical research. If the NIH accepts, the public would gain online access to 1 million existing research articles that would increase by around 15,000 submissions every month, as well as an archive of 1.7 million full-text articles dating back to 1849. The 57 publishers approached Dr. Elias Zerhouni, the NIH's director, under the auspices of DCPRinciples, an organization founded two years ago to respond to the open-access movement and the concerns of librarians about the high cost of commercial journals. ..All of the participating non-profit journals offer free access to their contents, from right away to 12 months after publication, and these datelines would not change, but if the NIH accepts the organization's offer, only copy-edited articles would be released and there would be no problem with copyright issues. In addition, the public would have access not only to published NIH-funded research, but also to all research the journals publish, no matter what the funding source. United Press International 10/29/05 http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20051028-060050-7979r
Posted by P. Kaufman at October 31, 2005 7:48 AM
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