OA icon

["Martha Tucker" <mtucker@u.washington.edu>]

It would be great to have an universally accepted, 
non-proprietary OA icon!

Martha Tucker, Librarian
Mathematics Research Library
Box 354350
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195-4350


----- Original Message -----
From: "Morna Conway" <mconway@infionline.net>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Dramatic growth of open access

> As of 4/17/06, HighWire Press is hosting 1,337,548 free full-text
> articles, see http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
>
> If the HighWire journal publishers agreed on a common icon to
> indicate free full-text, that would probably be helpful to
> librarians.
>
>
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>
> On 4/16/06 8:16 PM, "Martin Frank" <mfrank@The-APS.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > Email: mfrank@The-APS.org