Great news! Beginning with this issue, the Journal of the
Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) is being
published as an open access journal. Furthermore, the back
files of JCHLA online from Vol. 25(1), 2004 to Vol. 27(1),
2006 will be accessible without a password. As librarians we
strive to remove the barriers and provide access to information.
Using the open access publishing model, JCHLA will
be available to a larger audience, and authors can expect
their published work to have a greater impact.
PS: Kudos to the JCHLA for this welcome step. I'm probably not the only one wondering what business model it will use to support the new OA policy. The announcement says nothing about article processing fees, for example, and the page of instructions to authors hasn't been updated for more than a year.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/15/2006 11:49:00 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.
