BMJ Journals Announces the Launch of Unlocked – a New Open Access Initiative
BMJ Journals, a division of the BMJ Group, today announced the launch of a new open access service, which, if supported by authors, will make some of the important medical research being published today freely available to anyone in the world with an internet connection.
Unlocked is a new service that gives authors the option to make their articles freely available online for a fee. Unlocked is available to any author publishing an article in a BMJ Journals specialty journal. This includes some of the world’s pre-eminent medical titles including: Gut, Heart, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Thorax and Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
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Cambridge Open Option
From August 14th 2006 authors submitting articles to selected Cambridge Journals will be able to make their articles freely available to everyone, immediately on publication. Building on the success of Breast Cancer Online, the first Cambridge Open Access project, and Neuron Glia Biology, which provides Open Access after 6-12 months, Cambridge Open Option introduces a new Open Access model to a further 15 journals from the Cambridge list.
Gavin Swanson, STM Editor-in-Chief at Cambridge Journals said: “I’ve been involved in the Open Access world for some time and the launch of Cambridge Open Option is the result of a great deal of painstaking research into best practice. I’m confident that we have a robust model that will benefit both authors and researchers equally. We’re hoping that this will become a major part of our journals publishing in the future and that it will help us give greater access to the results of scientific research reported in our journals.”
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Wiley Announces New Funded Access Service
Hoboken, N.J., August 7, 2006 – Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a new funded access service forauthors of journal articles. Through this new program, authors will have the option of paying a fee to ensure that their article is available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience , Wiley’s online publishing platform, as well as the author’s funding agency’s preferred archive if applicable.
“Wiley developed the funded access program as a response to journal authors whose funding might have certain requirements,” said Mike Davis, Vice President, Global Life and Medical Sciences. “For those authors who want to publish in a Wiley journal, and whose funding agency requires deposit in an archive, this new program supports these requirements.”
As an initial offering, funded access will be available for 45 biomedical journals. Only authors of primary research articles qualify for this new service, and only those authors whose articles have been accepted for publication will be offered the funded access option at the point when the article is accepted, to ensure that the funded access option has no influence on the peer review and acceptance process. Wiley will deposit the final PDF of the article into the funder’s archive; this is the final, authoritative version of the article, after peer review, editing, any final corrections, online and print formatting, and publication. The fee for ensuring articles are made available through the funded access program is $3,000 per article.
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