Re: BioMed Cetral press release

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

Readers of this list serve may not be aware that many major journal
publishers both commercial and not for profit are working with the British
Library (leading the other UK copyright libraries) to establish the
deposit and permanent archiving of electronic journals. The committee is
called the JOINT COMMITTEE FOR VOLUNTARY DEPOSIT OF NON-PRINT material.
There is a write up in The Bookseller for 6 July 2001. The Publishers
Association (PA) and the Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers (ALPSP) are part of this committee and those of us engaged in
this exhausting activity which includes both me and Sally Morris have been
doing this exploratory work for some years! It is good that Jan Velterop
has now discovered our work and is at last keen to come on board.

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Fletcher <Gordon@biomedcentral.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: BioMed Cetral press release

> ===============================================
> Press Release:  17th July 2001
>
>
> BIOMED CENTRAL TO DEPOSIT E-JOURNALS WITH THE BRITISH LIBRARY
> ===============================================
>
> The British Library has agreed to work with the BioMed Central Group to
> explore the issues surrounding the creation and sustainability of a
> permanent electronic holding within the UK's National Archive of
> Publications for all the research articles published in the BioMed Central
> (www.biomedcentral.com) family of journals. This deposit will take effect
> as soon as the necessary system architecture is in place at the Library.
>
> Jan Velterop, Publisher of the BioMed Central Group, commented on this new
> development:
>
> 'This deposit into the UK's National Archive of Publications is consistent
> with BioMed Central's policy of securing accessibility and permanent
> archiving of its publications - it will add to the confidence of the
> scientific community that their online papers are preserved for posterity
> with the same degree of care as print.'
>
> This National Archive will be another way in which the information
> published in the BioMed Central journals can be made available in the long
> term. Currently, all the research articles published are archived, without
> delay, at the PubMed Central site (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov) and
> are also indexed in PubMed.
>
> In addition to the above online archiving solutions, BioMed Central will
> also be making archival print versions of the BioMed Central journals.
> These will be available on demand for libraries that require a hard copy
> of the BioMed Central research articles.
>
> All these initiatives, combined with the policy of promoting
> self-archiving by authors, means that all research articles published on
> BioMed Central will be permanently accessible and searchable in multiple
> archives.
>
> BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to
> providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and
> medical research it publishes. This commitment is based on the view that
> open access to research is essential to the rapid and efficient
> communication of science. In addition to open-access original research,
> BioMed Central also publishes reviews and other subscription-based
> content.
>
> For further information about BioMed Central go to:
> http://www.biomedcentral.com, or contact:
> Gordon Fletcher, PhD
> e-mail: Gordon@biomedcentral.com,
> tel: +44 (0)20 7323 0323