Public access of peer-reviewed papers resulting from National Institutes of Health (NIH)- supported research is a public good. Recent legislation requiring that all peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds be made publicly available on PubMed Central (PMC), NIH’s digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed manuscripts and articles, ensures that these papers are archived and are available freely to the public now and in the future. The policy will allow the NIH to monitor, mine, and develop its portfolio of NIH-funded research more effectively. It will also help NIH-supported research become more prominent, integrated, and accessible. This makes it easier for all scientists to pursue NIH’s research priority areas competitively....
The ASCB played an important pioneering role in the development of PMC. Molecular Biology of the Cell, along with PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were the sole journals available in PMC when the system first went public in February 2000. Members of ASCB actively supported the creation of the archive and currently serve on the PMC Advisory Committee....
Today, PMC is thriving, having grown into an archive containing over one and a half million research manuscripts and articles that are integrated with other scientific resources, such as PubChem and Genbank....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/29/2008 03:11:00 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.
