Effective immediately, Hindawi Publishing is converting 13 of its subscription-based journals to OA. From today's announcement:
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce a major expansion in its Open Access publishing program through the immediate conversion of over a dozen journals into the OA model. The converted journals are the following:
* Abstract and Applied Analysis * Advances in Difference Equations * Boundary Value Problems * Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society * Fixed Point Theory and Applications * Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology * Journal of Applied Mathematics * Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences * Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis * Journal of Automated Methods and Management in Chemistry * Journal of Inequalities and Applications * Mediators of Inflammation * Sarcoma
All current and back volumes of these journals are immediately available free of any subscription or registration barriers on the Hindawi web site. All new articles in these journals will be published under the "Creative Commons Attribution License" which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This conversion furthers Hindawi's position as one of the leading Open Access publishers, with more than 25 OA journals in the fields of Mathematics, Engineering, Biology, Medicine, and Chemistry. Hindawi is currently the only OA publisher with journal titles spanning such a large number of STM fields.
Comment. This is the largest bulk-conversion of non-OA journals to OA in the history of OA. It's especially welcome because journals that convert to OA bring their readership, reputation, impact factors, and prestige with them, unlike new OA launches, which have to develop these from scratch. Note to other publishers: Hindawi's direct experience with OA publishing is leading it to accelerate its expansion into OA rather than to retreat.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/22/2006 09:15:00 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.
