The Journal of Grassroots and Science will make its premiere sometime in the next month. Unlike most journals, it will be free to anyone who wants to read it. It will be published online. The journal is being created under the auspices of Trees for Life, a Wichita nonprofit group founded in 1984 by businessman Balbir Mathur. He said drafts of articles for the first issue were shown last week to the journal's advisers, including Jed Fahey, a scientist from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Fahey's work has included developing cruciferous plants, such as broccoli sprouts, as chemoprotective agents. Doren Fredrickson, a physician who specializes in preventive medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, will be the journal's editor. Jeffrey Faus, of Trees for Life, will be managing editor...."We expect to make it absolutely free of cost to everyone around the world," he said. "This is to create a platform between the common person and the person at the top of the ivory tower."
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.
