ISI Current Web Content has included all 34 open-access, peer-reviewed journals distributed by Bioline International. From today's Bioline announcement: 'This is a very encouraging development for the participating journals, all of which are generated in developing and emerging countries. It indicates the high standards of the content as applied by ISI to the authority, accuracy, currency, scope and navigational quality of the journals. Bioline International is a not-for profit service, currently providing a distribution mechanism for 34 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. All material from these journals is available both through the main BI web site and also through the Bioline eprints archive....The latter development...ensures the research from these journals is globally accessible free of charge on the same open access basis as all other material archived in interoperable institutional archives. The publishing partners of the academic journals fully accept and understand the advantages of open access for strengthening their own research base and that of other developing countries.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/20/2004 01:39:00 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.
