Dear Andy:
I am aware of PLoS from its very beginning. For the developing countries, open access archiving is a far better option than OAJ. Open access journals are welcome, and they are an absolute must for reviewing and validating research papers. In fact many Indian journals are open access and they DO NOT CHARGE AUTHOR FEES. These include the journals published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and a private publisher called MedKnow Publications. The interoperable institutional open access archives are a much cheaper option for the developing world. For authentic information on OAA, I refer members of this list to the prolific writings of Stevan Harnad and the blog of Peter Suber. Also intersting will be the many papers presented at the recent Berlin-3 Conference held at Southampton. All the presentations are available at the conference website.
Arun
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Access to the latest research in science is a topic that medical librarians are working on right now in this country. There is a basic question answer section on the National Institutes of Health Policy on Public Access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/nihfaq.htm This refers to "PubMed Central" http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ which I is the National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Siobhan
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Ourmedia and bridging the content digital divide
Hi Arun,
Are you familiar with Public Library of Science (www.plos.org)? They're creating a collection of peer-reviewed, open access journals on a variety of scientific topics. So far they have journals on biology, computational biology, pathogens, genetics and a general science journal.
PLoS is putting the financial burden on the scientists who submit papers
for consideration; that way, the cost comes out of the scientists' research budgets and it allows PLoS to publish the journals for free.
Over time I hope they'll have a wide range of disciplines covered, since
many of the major commercial journals simply won't allow their work to be published under an open-access model because they don't think it's financially viable. Only time will tell whether the PLoS financial model
will be sustainable, but so far the results seem positive....
ac
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