Free articles on open access in The Journal of Neuroscience

["Dante Preciado" <dpreciado@sfn.org>]

On September 6, 2006, The Journal of Neuroscience published an 
editorial by Editor-in-Chief Gary Westbrook on the ongoing debate 
about open access in the scientific community 
(http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/36/9077).  This 
issue included the first in a series of weekly Commentaries on 
science publishing that will appear in issues leading up to the 
2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Five 
individuals who have been involved in various publishing 
experiments and enterprises were invited to give their viewpoints 
on the challenges facing scientific journals publishing.  The 
hope is that readers will find these opinion pieces intriguing, 
while at the same time recognizing that the viewpoints expressed 
are not necessarily those of The Journal or the Society 
leadership.

Commentaries published to date in The Journal

John Willinsky
Why Open Access to Research and Scholarship?
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9078-9079; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2891-06.2006
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/36/9078>

Richard K. Johnson
Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9349-9351; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3130-06.2006
[http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/37/9349]

Paul Ginsparg
As We May Read
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9606-9608; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3161-06.2006
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/38/9606> ]

In forthcoming Issues of The Journal:
Richard Smith: Reinventing the biomedical journal. (September 27)
Matthew Cockerill and Vitek Tracz: Open access and the future of the
scientific research article. (October 4)

The Society for Neuroscience also will host a Publishing 
Roundtable at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, which will be 
moderated by incoming SfN President and former Editor-in-Chief of 
The Journal of Neuroscience, David Van Essen. "(R)evolution in 
scientific publishing: How will it affect you?" will be held 
Monday, Oct 16, from 9:30 to 11:00 am. For details, please see 
<http://www.sfn.org/am2006/index.cfm?pagename=3Dapp_eventsWorkshops&sessio n_id=3D114>

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