Open Access Journals
I am really excited about recent Harvard University initiative:
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.
Although the outcome of this vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost. This is a big step forward pushing publishing inexorably towards the “Open Access” model. As well as nice addition to NIH Public-Access Policy requirements.
The comprehensive list of open access journals can be accessed at doaj.org.
19th February, 2008 1 Comment
[...] the terms by which publicly funded research is made available to the public that paid for it. Open access proponents won a big victory when Congress voted to compel the National Institutes of Health to set [...]
17th September, 2008 at 18:04