(Fwd) October 1st 2006: a big day for open access

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Hi All,

 

See the Biomed Central mail, below.

 

There is an international move amongst scientists to have open access

as the NORM for science publications.

 

Unfortunately, the publishers of many journals are resisting that request.

Let us hope that constant pressure may change that in the future.

 

Best regards,

 

 

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October 1st 2006: a big day for open access

Date sent: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:59:00 +0100

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Dear Colleague,

 

October 1st 2006 is a major milestone for the open access movement.

There are now five major UK research funders which require open

access to the published results of all the research that they fund.

 

The Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology & Biological

Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic & Social Research

Council (ESRC) and National Environmental Research Council (NERC)

have all introduced policies requiring deposition in an open access

repository, which took effect on October 1st 2006. These new policies

come into effect on the anniversary of the introduction of the Wellcome

Trust's policy on open access, on October 1st 2005.

 

The mainstream acceptance of the need for open access means that

there has never been a better time to publish with BioMed Central, the

pioneering open access publisher. BioMed Central journals offer high

quality, rapid publication, and great value for money. All our journals

offer full open access to all research articles with no strings attached,

and meet the criteria of the Wellcome Trust, MRC, BBSRC, ESRC and

NERC open access policies, automatically depositing articles in

PubMed Central on behalf of the author.

 

BioMed Central is delighted at the rapid progress of open access in the

UK, and we look forward to similar developments around the world.

BioMed Central's authors, peer reviewers and editors have played a

hugely important role in making this possible - thank you for your

support!

 

Matthew Cockerill, PhD

Publisher, BioMed Central

 

To submit a manuscript to one of BioMed Central's open access

journals, visit:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/manuscript/

 

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