Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press has announced a new agreement with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that will allow all content published as open access under its Oxford Open model to be available from PubMed Central. The agreement is designed for authors publishing with Oxford Journals to meet the requirements of their funding bodies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who request all NIH-funded content to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of online publication. The new agreement means that all content published under Oxford Open will be immediately deposited into PubMed Central by Oxford Journals directly. Oxford Journals has published almost 2000 open access articles in 2006 through its Oxford Open models, including optional open access for 49 journals, and full open access with Nucleic Acids Research.
Comments.
One of my criteria for a good hybrid OA program is that the journal automatically deposit participating articles in an OA repository independent of the publisher or at least allow the author to do so. I applaud Oxford for taking this step.
However, another of my criteria is that journals should not interfere with authors' prior funding contracts. I can't tell whether Oxford will make authors pay the Oxford Open fee if they want to fulfill their pre-existing obligation to deposit their peer-reviewed manuscript in an OA repository.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/28/2006 09:19:00 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.
