SNM recently announced that all content in its flagship publication The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) is now free and open to the public six months after publication. Previously, non-subscribers waited 12 months before being able to freely access journal articles. The journal's editorial board and the society's board of directors approved expediting open access in order to help disseminate new research --helping increase understanding and sound practice of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging throughout the medical community and with the public.
The monthly, peer-reviewed JNM was recently ranked second among 87 imaging publications by the Thomson Reuters Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Journal Citations Report in recognition....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/18/2008 12:56:00 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.
