BioMed Central is changing the way it calculates institutional membership fees. The current method is based on the number of researchers in BMC-related departments at the institution. After January 1, 2005, BMC will base the fee for renewals on the estimated number of BMC-published articles the institution will produce in the following year. The method for calculating first-year membership fees will not change. For details see the BMC page on institutional memberships, the
discussion thread on LibLicense, or the
short note in Library Journal for February 23, 2004.
Update. I corrected this posting February 25 in light of a February 23 press release from BMC.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/23/2004 10:16:00 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.
