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Monday, November 02, 2009

Publishers accommodating MIT, Wellcome OA policies

The Endocrine Society, which publishes titles including the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Endocrinology, developed a hybrid OA option for Wellcome Trust funded authors. For a $3,000 fee, the publisher will deposit the final published version in PubMedCentral for immediate OA, under a CC BY-NC license. The option is only available to Wellcome grantees.
The European Respiratory Society, which publishes the European Respiratory Journal, will revise their policies to confirm UK PMC Funders Group grantees are allowed to self-archive their final authors manuscript in PubMedCentral 6 months after publication.
Four society publishers recently confirmed that their journal policies permit compliance with the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy, with no addendum or other special action necessary. The societies are the American Mathematical Society, the Optical Society of America (see announcement), the American Institute of Physics, and the American Vacuum Society (see announcement).

Posted by Gavin Baker at 11/02/2009 04:27:00 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.

I curtailed my blogging on July 1, 2009, and 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. �Peter Suber.