Dennis Normile, Japan Ponders Starting a Global Journal, Science 303 (5664), 1559 (12 March 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Normile reports on Japanese scientists' views that they can increase recognition of their research through publication of interdisciplinary, international journals from Japan. They point out that many Japanese scientific papers are published in U.S. journals, where the scientists are not party to the review process, and that meanwhile Japanese journals have suffered. It is not clear if such proposed journals would be open access. Normile points out that Japanese research has been widely disseminated through the J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator) web site, through which Japan's scientific societies make many of their publications open access; for one journal, Cell Structure and Function, it was stated that 92% of the online readership read the journal freely from abroad. However, one of the scientists quoted expresses skepticism about the launching of new journals and suggests that their proponents look to Nature and Science to see why they have an ongoing subscription and revenue stream.
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Garrett at 3/11/2004 06:28:00 PM.
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.
