Abstract: As of now, the Netherlands Journal of Medicine will become freely accessible online. This represents a turning point for the Journal as open access publishing provides instant and universal availability of published work to any potential reader, worldwide, completely free of subscriptions, passwords and charges. This assures the widest possible dissemination of scientific knowledge from the Journal without boundaries of limited circulation or local availability of a hardcopy. We believe that by opening up we are making research available to a much wider range of readers than our print and subscription model would have been able to achieve.
(PS: NJM was published by Elsevier at least until December 2001 and is now published by Van Zuiden Communications. I'm trying to find out whether its new OA status is the result of a declaration of independence. Thanks to Klaus Graf for NJM's current web site.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/12/2005 12:02:00 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.
