OA articles in toll access journal: will they be lost ?

["RAPPAZ Francois" <francois.rappaz@unifr.ch>]

Springer, Blackwell, Oxford University Press have proposed an Open Access
option and articles published with this option are accessible to anyone on
the journal's web site. Oxford University Press has even shift the whole
journal "Nuclear Acid Research" to open access.

>From the reader's point of view, articles form Nucleic Acid Research are
marked as OA in PubMed, so everyone interested can see that when searching
PubMed. Journal of Experimental Botany from the same publisher is a mix of
OA and toll access articles. On the publisher's site OA articles are
easily seen, but they were not in PubMed (for the few articles I have
searched, at least) since there was no difference between OA and non OA
articles.

Now, with journals from Blackwell and Springer which are all subscription
based, does anybody have an idea how OA articles lost in these toll access
journals will be tagged as OA to be used ? Not only in the journal's site
but also in databases like PubMed, or Web of Science ?

Fran�ois Rappaz

Centre de documentation de la Facult� des Sciences 
Universit� de Fribourg
Switzerland