Open access online veterinary journal launches, Guardian Unlimited, June 1, 2005. Excerpt: 'The push to make research freely available on the web received another boost today when the open access publisher BioMed Central (BMC) launched BMC Veterinary Research, the first international open access journal to cover veterinary science and medicine....Professor David Eckersall, a BMC editorial board member from the University of Glasgow, said: "BMC Veterinary Research will be greatly welcomed by the research community involved with advancing veterinary science and medicine. The benefits of open access publishing, which has proved so successful in human medicine and biological sciences, will now be available for the wide range of specialities that are encompassed in veterinary research." Earlier this month, research indicated that Britain is already in the vanguard of the drive to make academic research freely available to anyone over the internet. While the US has more open-access archives - 127 - than any other country and Britain is second with 54, Sweden has the most archives relative to its population. By this measure, Britain is in third place and the US 10th in terms of open access provision.' (Thanks to Yong Liu.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/31/2005 11:05:00 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 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.
