JISC is providing £150,000 to "allow four key publishers to move towards or continue open access delivery for some of their journals." The publishers are the Public Library of Science (for PLoS Biology), the Institute of Physics Publishing (for the New Journal of Physics), Lancaster University (for the Journal of Experimental Botany), and the International Union of Crystallography (for all the IUCr journals). Excerpt from Friday's press release: "Three of the four awards will mean the waiving of submission fees for all UK authors, while the fourth --with the Public Library of Science-- will include a 50% discount on the first 40 papers from the UK published in PLoS journals. The programme is the first in a three-year programme designed to encourage as much open access delivery of research findings as possible. Another invitation to publishers to tender for the second round of funding in the programme will be issued in early April. Alongside this programme, JISC, together with the Open Society Institute has also co-funded an author survey. Important results from the survey include: 92% of all authors surveyed support the principle of open access for all readers. Secondly, of authors who have experienced in an open access journal, 71% are more likely to do so again as a result of their experience. The full findings of the report will be published on the JISC web site within the next week."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/06/2004 11:53:00 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.
