The first SpringerLink Open Choice article is offered in the SpringerLink journal Experiments in Fluids; below is the OpenURL link using DOI.
R. Fei and W. Merzkirch. Investigations of the measurement accuracy of stereo particle image velocimetry. Experiments in Fluids 37(4):559-565 October 2004. [Received: 12 November 2003 Accepted: 10 June 2004 Published online: 20 July 2004]
I included the submission and processing dates to illustrate that Springer Open Choice, like other Open Access models, appears to be tapping into pent up demand for straightforward ways for authors to make their research as widely visible as possible. Fei and Merzkirch selected an appropriate venue to publisher their article a year ago. Peter Suber reported on the Open Choice initiative in the August 2004 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, roughly the point at which the article was initially published online. As Peter notes in that item, and Derk Haank reiterated at the Charleston Conference last week, subscribers can expect reductions in the subscription prices of journals proportional to the percentage of articles which are funded under the Open Choice plan within those journals.
(Thanks to Dana Roth, Caltech, for the timely tip.)
Posted by
George Porter at 11/12/2004 06:06:00 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.
