hybrid journals should enhance visibility of OA articles

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

Colleagues,

I was pleased with the new policy of the American Society of
Plant Biologist: articles published in Plant Physiology are made
OA at no fee to participating authors who are already members of
the ASPB. These OA articles are tagged in the journal archive but=
I could not find most of them using OAI Sevice providers like
OAIster or Dbase.

An author publishing in a hybrid journal and wishing to make his
work widely accessible should archive it in a Institutional
Repository, if possible... And it the case of ASPB, that's
something that would not be permitted if the information from
Romeo are correct...

Would it be so hard for the folks at Highwire (for example) to
export metadata of those OA articles to OAI service provider ?
That would be a strong incentive for OA articles that are still=
ill visible since poorly indexed ?

Francois Rappaz

Centre de documentation de la Faculte des Sciences
Universite de Fribourg
Switzerland
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