Starting in January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP) will publish three of the four journals of the London Mathematical Society (LMS). The journals will not be OA, but they will have two unusual access policies. First, subscribers will have online access to the full runs back to 1865 at no extra charge. Second, each new issue will offer free online access to everyone for the first six months after publication and then move behind the subscription wall.
The journals are currently published by Cambridge University Press, where they have experimentally tried access policies similar to the ones coming at OUP. During 2005, the Proceedings and the Bulletin offered free online access to the most recent two issues before moving them behind the subscription wall. The same experiment is now in progress for the Journal during 2006.
LMS's fourth journal, LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics, will remain at Cambridge, where it is OA. Or as the Cambridge site puts it, "access is free until further notice".
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/18/2006 10:41:00 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.
