JISC has announced the publishers it will support in the third round of its Open Access Programme. From today's press release:
JISC today announced the winners of funding under the third round of its Open Access programme under which publishers are awarded seed money to explore open access models of publishing. Following the success of the first two years of the programme, the decision has been made to award three publishers funds to support open access delivery for their journals. A total of £84,500 will be awarded to some of the most important scholarly titles in their fields. These are: New Journal of Physics (published by the Institute of Physics Publishing); the journals of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr); and the Journal of Medical Genetics (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.). All three are previous recipients of funding from earlier rounds of this programme, a level of continuity that increases the growing evidence base provided by the programme, which is to be formally evaluated early next year. Peter Strickland, Managing Editor of IUCr, said: "As a result of the JISC funding so far, I am strongly convinced that providing authors the opportunity to make their papers open access works well, provides authors with extra choice and improves access to published content."...Andrea Horgan, Managing Editor of BMJ Journals, said: “Earlier JISC funds have enabled us to compare the profile and usage of open access papers with those that are behind closed access to gauge author [reader?] responses in both cases. This involves randomisation of papers to ensure the integrity of the results. This is an ongoing process and the additional grant money will allow us to randomise a further 20 papers from UK authors (10 to open access) to gather further evidence about this model.” Lorraine Estelle, JISC Collections Team Manager, said: “This programme continues to provide us with much-needed evidence about the impact of open access models of publishing on the conduct and dissemination of research."
Update. The IOP has issued its own press release (October 20).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/18/2005 11:17:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
