The open-access New Journal of Physics has published its 500th article. Excerpt from today's press release: "This milestone marks a culmination of continued editorial growth for NJP. Since 2001 the journal size has increased by more than 700% and with a readership now extending to over 130 countries, NJP has proved able to achieve wide and effective dissemination of its high quality content. Every NJP paper is downloaded hundreds of times within weeks of publication and to date there have been more than 330,000 article downloads. The official 2003 ISI Impact Factor for the journal is 2.48." (PS: This is an OA success story worth celebrating. NJP has been OA for six years --not as long as many successful non-OA journals, of course, but long enough to answer doubts about the underlying business model. NJP is published by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/10/2004 09:01:00 AM.
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.
