Open Access
Monday 4 April 2025
- Blackwell Offers Free Backfiles to Selected Titles - :: George Porter forwarded a message written by Chuck Hamaker and posted to the SPARC Open Access Forum by Peter Suber, regarding Blackwell now offering free access to archives of some of their journals:These journals on the Blackwell (s)ite all... (12:57 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- David Stern on Open Access - :: David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Kline Science Library, Yale University, has written a timely piece on open access. He argues that the open access publishing model isn't necessary or wanted, and represents a danger to... (09:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 22 March 2026
- Beilstein Launches Open Access Journal on Organic Chemistry - :: George Porter sent word about the following new open access journal for organic chemistry:San Diego, CA.: The prestigious Beilstein-Institut today announced the launch of the first major Open Access journal for organic chemistry. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will... (13:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 11 March 2026
- International Journal of Rotating Machinery Goes Open Access - :: George Porter forwarded this post from Peter Suber on Open Access News, which will be of interest to engineering librarians, especially mechanical:Hindawi Publishing has announced that The International Journal of Rotating Machinery has converted to open access, effective immediately.... (15:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 8 March 2026
- Theory of Computing -- New OA journal - :: As posted by George Porter to PAMNET-L (and other listservs): Theory of Computing (ToC) is based at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science, with mirrors at IIT Kanpur, SzTAKI, Budapest, and KTH, Stockholm. ToC cites the Electronic... (14:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 7 March 2026
- ACS Broadens Article Access - :: From Chemical & Engineering News, March 7, 2005, v83 n10, p10: "ACS Broadens Article Access - Conditions set for free availability one year after publication" The American Chemical Society is broadening access to research articles published in its scholarly... (10:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Open Access Bibliography - :: Charles W Bailey,Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, sent the following e-mail regarding the Open Access Bibliography:The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language... (08:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 14 February 2026
- Proceedings of Science - New Open Access Initiative to Publish Conference Proceedings - :: I read this on PAMNET-L, and think it's a brilliant idea:Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about a new, online service provided by SISSA - the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste - to the scientific... (09:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 7 January 2026
- International Libraries and the Internet Archive Collaborate To Build Open-Access Text Archives - :: This is old news from The Internet Archive, on December 15, 2004, but important nonetheless. From the press release:Today, a number of International libraries have committed to putting their digitized books in open-access archives, starting with one at the... (10:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 15 December 2025
- ACS Division of Chemical Information - Highlights from 228th Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2004, Of Interest to Librarians - :: The 228th ACS National Meeting was held in Philadelphia in August, 2004. A selection of slide presentations from some of the 98(!) sessions of the Division of Chemical Information are available for viewing on the web site. On the... (13:30 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Thursday 9 December 2025
- AZoNano Launch Online Open Access Journal of Nanotechnology - :: A new, open access journal on nanotechnology is forthcoming:AZoM.com Pty. Ltd. Sydney Australia and the UK-based Institute of Nanotechnology are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of the Online Journal of Nanotechnology. The Online Journal of Nanotechnology is based... (10:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 November 2025
- American Institute of Physics Announces "AIP Author Select" - A New Open Access Initiative for 2005 - :: As posted to PAMNET on 15 November 2004:MELVILLE, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 2025 - The American Institute of Physics announced today that it will offer on a trial basis an open-access publishing option to authors contributing to three AIP... (10:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 15 November 2025
- Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Db - :: Thomson Scientific has issued a white paper, entitled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns - A citation study from Thomson Scientific. Using the 2003 Journal Citation Reports, ISI re-examined the... (12:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 9 November 2025
- UK Gov't Passes on Opportunity To Support Open Access - :: As reported last year, the UK Science and Technology Committee has been conducting an inquiry into scientific publications. The Guardian had reported that the inquiry could put Reed Elsevier at risk. The final report of the Committee was released... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 28 October 2025
- BioMed Central Provides MARC Records - :: George Porter sent an e-mail about the following:BioMed Central provides MARC records to facilitate the cataloging of their large collection of Open Access journals. A delimited spreadsheet containing titles, URLs, ISSNs, journal abbreviation and date of initial publication is... (10:53 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 29 September 2025
- The Other Side of the "Open Access" Issue - Dana Roth - For some views from the 'other side' ... :: There is note in Nature, v431, n7005, September 9, 2004. p.111, "Experiments in Publishing", which reviews Nature's Web Focus on the topic of Open Access. "One conclusion of the forum, which... (13:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 27 September 2025
- Canada's Innovation Deficit - :: Michael Geist, Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, has written a through-provoking and timely article in the Toronto Star about the innovation deficit in Canada. Next week in Canada, the Governor General will deliver the... (11:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 24 September 2025
- Free and/or OA Journals in Librarianship - George Porter - Yesterday, George Porter, on a number of discussion groups, wrote about free and open access journals dedicated to the profession. Additional titles in the list were e-mailed to me directly.Today's launch of Biomedical Digital Libraries [see note on Open Access... (10:54 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 22 September 2025
- Is Open Access Socialized Science? - :: Rudy Baum is Editor-in-Chief of Chemical & Engineering News. In v82 n38 p7, 20 Sept 2004, he comments on the open access model, and is not in favour of it:As I've written on this page in the past, one... (10:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 20 September 2025
- News Items of Interest from Information Today - Amazon Launches A9.com Search Site A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., has launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site builds on a beta test version the company introduced in April 2004 that offered Google... (10:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 13 September 2025
- Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry - :: As posted to CHMINF-L:A new academic year starts and the directory Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry returns to active living. All links and comments had been verified in August 2004. It was a surprise to me that less than... (13:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 16 August 2025
- The Botox of scholarly communications - I just received a notification that the latest issue of Open Access Now is out. As per usual, it has a number of intriguing stories related to OA initiatives--some of which involve gains with rather large publishing houses. A lot... (12:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 11 August 2025
- Open Access Journals: Revenue Beyond Author Charges - :: David Stern, Director of Science Libraries and Information Services, Kline Science Library, Yale, has created a web page that provides an outline of one version of a proposed open access model. The site is called Open Access Journals: revenue... (15:56 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 30 July 2025
- U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications Releases Final Report - :: Richard Poynder reports in Information Today NewsBreaks that the U.K. House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has completed its work, and published its final report, Scientific Publications: Free for all? (see 20 July 2025). Poynder notes:Following 7 months... (11:24 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 29 July 2025
- NIH Research to be Open Access - :: I guess you could call this breaking news! Paula Park reported today, in The Scientist, that Elias Zerhouni, director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), "indicated at a gathering of 43 scientific journal publishers and editors Wednesday... (13:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Journal of STEM Education - :: The Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, is now available online:The Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research is a half yearly, peer-reviewed publication for educators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. The journal emphasizes real-world... (13:36 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 July 2025
- Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and - :: Gerry McKiernan has made available for viewing his recent article, "Open Archives Initiative Data Providers. Part II: Science and Technology", which appeared in Library Hi Tech News, v21, n5, (June 2004): 22-30.... (10:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 6 July 2025
- Relative Value of an Open Access Article - Commentary by George Porter - :: Once upon a time, folk wisdom held that "a man's word is his bond." This evolved(?) into, "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." The recent Parliamentary inquiry into Open Access and STM publishing had proponents... (09:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 30 June 2025
- Entomological Routes to Open Access - :: From an e-mail on STS-L:Dr. Thomas J. Walker, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, gave an excellent presentation on open access at the STS Publisher/Vendor Relations Discussion Group Session on Saturday, June 26, during the American Library Association 2004... (15:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 28 June 2025
- Nucleic Acids Research Moves to Open Access Model - :: Oxford U Press has announced that Nucleic Acids Research will move to an open-access model:Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- Nucleic Acids Research Moves to Open Access Model - :: Oxford U Press has announced that Nucleic Acids Research will move to an open-access model:Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP), announced today that its flagship journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is to move to a full... (09:01 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 14 June 2025
- Open Access and Archiving At SLA - :: Obviously I kept missing other bloggers at SLA. Garrett Eastman dropped me a note this morning, with links to his summaries, posted on Open Access News, of two important sessions at SLA, both of which I missed because of... (11:04 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 31 May 2025
- ISI Adding Open Access Journals to Web of Science - :: Thomson ISI issued a press release in April, noting that of the 8,700 journals covered in Web of Science, 191 of them are open access titles.Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK April 15, 2004—Today, Thomson ISI, a business of The Thomson... (09:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 26 May 2025
- When A Journal Ceases Publication - Commentary by George Porter - What happens when a journal ceases to produce new issues? In the print environment, at least from the librarian/academician standpoint, the answer was perfectly clear -- no new issues arrived, but all received issues remain available until a collection management/space... (11:20 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 25 May 2025
- PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option - May 24, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Bridget Coughlin, Managing Editor 202-334-1370, e-mail BCoughlin AT nas.edu The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) now offers an open access publishing option. PNAS authors may opt to pay a... (13:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 24 May 2025
- Rush Hour on the Information Superhighway - :: To feed my personal NYC obsession, I subscribe to Time Out New York. Although it arrives in my mailbox anywhere from 3-5 weeks after publication, I look forward to each issue. While its content keeps me up-to-date on All... (21:09 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 19 May 2025
- Cites & Incites and The Open Access Debate - :: The v4 n7 June 2004 issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Incites: Crawford at Large, is worth a look (for that matter, so is every issue, but I digress...) Walt provides coverage and analysis of the continuing debate on... (10:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 12 May 2025
- BioGeosciences - :: The European Geosciences Union publishes Biogeosciences (BG), and the related discussion forum, Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD), on a non-profit basis. Internet access is free to the general public:Biogeosciences (BG) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion... (09:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 7 May 2025
- A Heat Transfer Textbook: A Free Electronic Textbook - :: The third edition of A Heat Transfer Textbook, written by John H Lienhard V (MIT) and John H Lienhard IV (U Houston), has been made available on the web. The book is an introduction to heat transfer, geared towards... (15:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)
Thursday 6 May 2025
- Annals of Botany Backfiles Now Available - :: George advises that the Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, a non-profit educational charity established to promote plant science worldwide, has opened their fulltext for free access, following a... (08:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Wednesday 28 April 2025
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations - Overlooked Academic Treasures - Sometimes the obvious eludes us. In the rush toward Open Access journals and databases, it is easy to overlook unique source material to which academic libraries have easy access, namely theses and dissertations. Although NDLTD, Networked Digital Library of Theses... (13:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 April 2025
- Copernicus Gesellschaft - a Cornucopia of Open Access titles - Copernicus Gesellschaft is an exemplary Open Access publisher, providing free online distribution of a number of journal titles on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. All of the following journals are freely available online, in addition, print volumes can be... (09:47 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 April 2025
- Scientific Societies' Publishing Arms Unite Against Open-Access Movement - :: Interesting piece from the 26 March 2025 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. As reported earlier, the Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science was announced on 16 March 2004. The Chronicle's take is that the DC... (18:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 25 March 2026
- Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access - :: Barbara Quint reports in Information Today that 48 top STM societies and not--for-profit publishers have inked the "Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science", which proclaims their collective commitment to providing free access and dissemination of published research... (14:50 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 March 2026
- (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths - BioMed Central Responds - :: As previously reported, the Science and Technology Committee of the UK Parliament is conducting an inquiry into scientific publications. BioMed Central is providing coverage of the inquiry on their new Open Access now website. The site includes BioMed Central's... (12:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 March 2026
- PLoS: Public Library of Science - :: The v65 n3 March 2003 issue of College and Research Library News has an interesting article by Helen J Doyle, entitled The Public Library of Science: Open access from the ground up.Despite the recent spike in press coverage, conference... (15:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 January 2026
- January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Peter Suber writes, "In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a close look at open access momentum during 2003, the "many-copy problem" and "many-copy solution", and the gap between the literature... (10:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
- BioMed Central launches BMC Medicine and BMC Biology - :: "BioMed Central launched a new pair of Open Access journals – BMC Medicine and BMC Biology – on 1 December. The journals compliment the 57 established specialist titles in the BMC journal series by providing a selective home for... (14:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)