From the annnouncement by Martin Rundkvist, its managing editor:
Since a bit more than a year, Fornvännen's first 100 years (1906-2005) have been freely available and searchable on-line....Now we've gone one step further and made the thing into an Open Access journal. The site's run of the journal is complete up to 6 months ago, and every issue will henceforth appear on-line half a year after it was distributed on paper....
Many thanks to my friends Gun Larsson and Kerstin Assarsson-Rizzi of the Library of the Academy of Letters who have been the driving forces behind our on-line move!
From the English version of the Fornvännen"about" page:
The [digital] Table of Contents and Abstracts will be published [online] simultaneously with the print edition at fornvannen.se, while the full text of the articles will be published electronically 6 months after the print edition has reached its subscribers. The articles will then be available free of charge. The Table of Contents and links to available articles in full text will be found at the webpage of the annual issue.
Comment. Very few journals have been able to make OA digital editions and priced print editions coexist without some delay in the digital edition. It's not impossible; Medknow does it. But Fornvännen is trying a new form of delayed OA: The full-text digital edition is OA from the moment it appears online, but it doesn't appear online until six months after the print edition.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/18/2009 12:02:00 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.
