Oxford University Press has launched Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal. Quoting the press release: "The 'open access' (OA) publishing model for eCAM will be the third OA initiative from OUP Journals Division, all designed to gain a better understanding of how different open access models could work in different markets and academic disciplines. Nucleic Acids Research is exploring a mandatory author-pays model, whilst Journal of Experimental Botany has implemented an optional author-pays model." eCAM will apparently charge no processing fees at all, thanks to sponsorship by the Ishikawa Natural Products Research Center. eCAM's OA articles will be deposited in PubMed Central and crawled by Google.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/09/2004 10:12:00 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.
