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What is open access publishing?
Open access publishing and publications have received a lot of press lately,
from online debates at the Nature website to articles in the New York
Times. What exactly is an open access publication? There are many definitions,
but in a nutshell an open access publication is a publication that provides immediately
free online access to all users worldwide.
This may sound like a tall order, and yet there are to date over 1000 journal
publications alone that fit this definition. The need for this type of access
has been driven by the out-of-control costs for scholarly publications. Statistics
kept by the Association for Research Libraries show that since 1986 journal prices
have increased by 260% while inflation has increased 68%. At research institutions
around the world, scholarly work is submitted to commercial publishers only to
be bought back by libraries at those same institutions at immense costs. The
current system of scholarly publishing is not sustainable. Today the LANL Research
Library has a world-class journal collection in science and technology which
is under siege and will not last without changes in scholarly publishing.
So, why should you consider publishing in an open access publication?
- Increased dissemination
- Articles can be cited sooner
- Articles potentially cited more frequently
- Institutional costs for scholarly publishing are decreased
More information
Directories
Directory of Open Access Journals
Open Access Information and Publishers
Open Access Overview
BioMedCentral
Myths Regarding
Open Access Publishing
Open
Access - Unlocking the Value of Scientific Research (pdf)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
SPARC
Open Access Statements of Principle
ALPSP principles of scholarship-friendly
journal publishing practice (pdf)
Berlin
Declarations
Bethesda Statement
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
(FAIR)
Washington DC Principles for
Free Access to Science
Wellcome Trust
Newsletters
SPARC Open Access Newsletter
(SOAN)
Open Access Forums
Nature Forum
on Open Access
Open Access Now Forum
Studies
Correlation between
citation impact and usage impact
Costs and
business models in scientific research publishing (pdf)
The
Impact of Open Access Journals - A Citation Study From Thomson ISI (pdf)
Monograph
and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2003 (.xls)
Open
Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and
Citation Patterns (10/04)(pdf) 
Governmental Action
House of Commons Science & Technology
Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications
News
Elsevier
decides to allow open access for author self-archiving of papers (pdf)
European
Inquiry into Scientific Publishing (July 5, 2004)
Nucleic Acids
Research moves
to full Open Access publishing model (June 26, 2004) (pdf)
Springer
Open Choice: Allows the option of open access for your journal articles (July
7, 2004)
Open Access Conferences and Workshops
Open Access Upcoming Conferences
Open Access Publications - select titles
Algebraic and Geometric
Topology
BioMedCentral - over
90 journals
Geometry & Topology
Journal of Machine Learning Research
New Journal of Physics
Public
Library of Science - PLoS Biology
Public Library of Science - PLoS
Medicine
UC eScholarship Repository
Scholarly Communication Recommendations
For mathematicians - scholarly communication recommendations from math community
Contact Carol Hoover (hoover@lanl.gov) for further information.
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