RE: Dramatic growth of open access

["Martin Frank" <mfrank@The-APS.org>]

Why is there a need to post a list of OA articles in our 
journals?  All one has to do is go to the TOC for the journal and 
one sees an open tag (or "lock") on articles that are open and 
free for reading.  APS does that for articles for which the 
author has paid an OA fee.  Should we also do this for articles 
that become free after an embargo period?  Should we post a list 
of those articles somewhere other than in the journal's TOC?  I 
am proud of how we function as a publisher, providing access in a 
timely manner, facilitating the needs of patients to access 
content, and encouraging the development of the scientific 
enterprise in developing countries through collaboration with 
Hinari and Agora.

marty

Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Executive Director
American Physiological Society
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>>> David.Goodman@liu.edu 04/13/06 7:41 PM >>>
I expand on Matt's remark about the difficulty of even obtaining
basic data.

It would be very useful if the publishers of journals with 
occasional OA articles were to post lists of those published. 
Asssuming that they engage in such a manner of publication in the 
hope of providing at least some OA, they ought to want to display 
their success.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
dgoodman@liu.edu

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Subject: Re: Dramatic growth of open access

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A better approach would be to analyse the number of immediate
open access articles published year on year. This is challenging
to do, not least because several years on it is very difficult to
be sure what *was* open access at the moment of publication. But
that is really the metric that counts.

Matthew Cockerill, Ph.D.
Publisher
BioMed Central ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/ )
London, UK

Email: matt@biomedcentral.com