Re: Dramatic growth of open access

[Morna Conway <mconway@infionline.net>]

As of 4/17/06, HighWire Press is hosting 1,337,548 free full-text 
articles, see http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

If the HighWire journal publishers agreed on a common icon to 
indicate free full-text, that would probably be helpful to 
librarians.


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On 4/16/06 8:16 PM, "Martin Frank" <mfrank@The-APS.org> wrote:

> Why is there a need to post a list of OA articles in our 
> journals?  All one has to do is go to the TOC for the journal 
> and one sees an open tag (or "lock") on articles that are open 
> and free for reading.  APS does that for articles for which the 
> author has paid an OA fee.  Should we also do this for articles 
> that become free after an embargo period?  Should we post a 
> list of those articles somewhere other than in the journal's 
> TOC?  I am proud of how we function as a publisher, providing 
> access in a timely manner, facilitating the needs of patients 
> to access content, and encouraging the development of the 
> scientific enterprise in developing countries through 
> collaboration with Hinari and Agora.
>
> marty
>
> Martin Frank, Ph.D.
> Executive Director
> American Physiological Society
> Email: mfrank@The-APS.org