For the third year in a row, Oxford University Press has lowered the subscription prices of its hybrid Oxford Open journals to reflect growing author uptake of the OA option. From yesterday's announcement:
Oxford Open Update
We would like to remind institutions with current standard, print-only, or online-only subscriptions that their authors are eligible for discounted open access charges. From 2009 we will also have a business model for consortia customers which will provide competitive open access charges for their authors of their respective institutions....
You may already have heard that all open access articles are now automatically deposited into PubMed Central, which is helping authors to comply with funding body requirements. Furthermore, for the third year in a row, we have adjusted our online-only prices of journals offering the optional Oxford Open model to reflect any increase in the amount of open access versus non-open access content published in each journal in 2007 compared to 2006. Updated information on our open access pricing adjustments will soon be posted [here]....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/25/2008 02:55:00 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.
