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TA journal deposits its new articles in PMC after six months Emma Hill, JCB content automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), Journal of Cell Biology, October 1, 2007. An editorial. Excerpt:
Comment. This goes well beyond standard green policies that permit self-archiving. It even goes beyond the few that positively encourage self-archiving. It guarantees OA archiving and doesn't leave it to the initiative of busy authors unfamiliar with their options. Automatic deposit in PMC is routine for OA journals at PLoS and BMC, but don't forget that JCB is a TA journal. Moreover, JCB is depositing the published editions of its articles, not the unedited author manuscripts, and doing so from self-interest, not the goad of payments from authors or funding agencies. Compare the HHMI deal with Elsevier in which Elsevier would not deposit even the unedited author manuscripts in PMC without payment of $1,000-1,500 per paper. If other journals follow the lead of JCB, then the OA percentage of the new literature will rapidly approach 100% and funding agencies like HHMI will never again accede to archiving demands like those of Elsevier. Kudos to JCB and Rockefeller University Press. |