EBSCO A-Z now offers access to almost 1,000 OA journals. Excerpt from the press release: "EBSCO A-to-Z now offers access to hundreds of free online journals, such as those found in the Directory of Open Access Journals, PubMed Central, SciELO and other portals. Spanning topics from language and literature to science and medicine, these journals are part of the A-to-Z master title database that provides link and coverage information to more than 40,000 unique titles from more than 530 database and e-journal packages from approximately 100 different providers. Using A-to-Z's online administrative module with its interactive Title Wizard, libraries can add these titles to their lists and make them available to patrons in a matter of minutes." (PS: Of course EBSCO users already have free access to these OA journals, and EBSCO is not charging for access to them. But this is still a win-win idea. It gives OA journals new visibility, especially through EBSCO's journal-level search engine, and it gives the EBSCO master list of titles new comprehensiveness and value.) (Thanks to Gary Price.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/29/2004 09:15:00 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.
