The June issue of Access Magazine is now online. This issue features an interview with Mark Robertson (President of Blackwell Publishing Asia) on Blackwell's OA experiments and a summary of the Kaufman-Wills study of OA journals. Excerpt from the Robertson interview: 'It is safe to say that the open access model will challenge the status quo, but it is too early to reach any other conclusions. The number of open access journals is small, the definition of what is an open access journal is not unanimously agreed, and Blackwell and other publishers are experimenting with new models, e.g. Online Open....[By permitting author self-archiving, is Blackwell undermining its fee-based OA option?] The article which will be used by authors for self archiving will be the final article, identical to the published article in the journal...Prior to publication the manuscript will have been peer reviewed by the journal's academic editor and consequently improved and made acceptable for publication in the journal according to its editorial policy and standards. Thereafter Blackwell Publishing will have edited, formatted and improved the structure and presentation of the finished article and applied the necessary tagging for the article to be accessed online and to be interactive with other databases. In the traditional subscription model for journals the cost of this work is covered by the subscriptions paid by the library and individual subscribers, supplemented by advertising and other income. In the Online Open model the charge per article, currently fixed at USD2,500 goes towards covering the cost of publication.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/11/2005 10:20:00 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.
