Open access: What comes next?

Learned Publishing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-23

  Goodman, David ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 12144266837     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/0953151052801505     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. The best single source is the archives of liblicense-l, www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives
2. Goodman, D. The criteria for open access. Serials Review, 30(4): Special Focus on Open Access: Issues, Ideas, and Impact (in press).
3. For details see the SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/ ~peters/fos
4. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
5. See PLoS as described in http://www.plos.org, as compared to Scielo, www.scielo.br/scielo.php/
6. They were first advocated as a government requirement by Harold Varmus, as described in Kling, R. et al. The real stakes of virtual publishing: the transformation of e-Biomed into PubMed Central. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004:55, no.2, 127-48.
7. Harnad, S. and Brody, T. Comparing the impact of open access (OA) vs. non-OA articles in the same journals. D-Lib Magazine, 2004:10, no. 6. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html
8. Baldwin, C. What do societies do with their publishing surpluses? http://www.alpsp.org.uk/news/NFPsurvey-summaryofresults.pdf
9. Quinn, B. Future of the NIH Open Access policy. Information Today, 2004:21(9), Oct. http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/quint.shtml
10. Discussed in the Soros Foundation guides at http://www.soros.org/ openaccess/oajguides/
11. See many of the opinions in the articles in the Nature Web Focus, Access to the literature: the debate continues... http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/ accessdebate/
12. That this decrease in prices is possible is shown by the 1-3% price decrease announced by the American Physical Society, and their anticipation that such decrease will continue, as stated in https://librarians.aps.org/ 2005pricing.htm