The appearance of this title as a full participant in PubMed Central seems quite noteworthy. It is the first, to my knowledge, journal owned by one of the major commercial publishers (Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, ...) to participate [fully] in PubMed Central. Previously, selected author fee supported articles from several publishers have been deposited in the PMC Open Access Subset....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/07/2008 04:20:00 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.
