Biomedical articles that have been published in Oxford Journals and funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) will now be deposited into PubMedCentral (PMC).
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP) said the new development will “help authors comply with the public access policies of the NIH”. ...
Commenting on the announcement, Martin Richardson, managing director of Oxford Journals said, ‘already all of our open access articles are being deposited into PMC. Now any NIH-funded authors who publish their articles in one of our journals will not need to deposit them into PMC themselves – Oxford Journals will do so for no charge on their behalf.’
Manuscripts which are NIH funded and already open access will be available immediately on PMC. However, only the final published articles rather than original submitted versions will be available from the PMC repository. Oxford Journals said they will collaborate with authors in order to identify other NIH funded articles.
Update (PS). Also Tracey Caldwell's article on the same subject in the same journal (September 4, 2008). Among other things, Tracey compares and contrasts the Oxford policy with the Nature policy. Oxford will always deposit the published edition, while Nature will only deposit the final version of the author's peer-reviewed manuscript. But Nature will (eventually) deposit into institutional repositories as well as central repositories like PMC, while Oxford has no plans to deposit in institutional repositories.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 8/04/2008 10:51:00 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.
