My first experience with one of BioMed Central's open-access journals has been a favorable one. My commentary (not about FOS) is in the new journal Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. Some relevant dates: on 10 February 2003, I was invited by the editor to submit a commentary. I submitted one on 18 March. Reviewers' comments were received on 23 April. The revised version was published (as a 'Provisional PDF' version) on 1 May. Proofs of the final version were received on 9 May, and the commentary was published in final form on 19 May. By May 22, it had been indexed (PMID: 12756054) by PubMed. The interval, from the initial invitation to the appearance of a citation in PubMed, was much shorter than I had expected.
Posted by
Jim Till at 5/28/2003 08:48:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
