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ISCMR
NEWSFLASH
The world of “open access” publishing has
drawn considerable public attention in the last year or so, not the least from
some traditional publishers who are somewhat horrified at this paradigmatic
shift. Below is a sampling of news from some of the industry leaders.
1. Oxford University
Press
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM)
is an international, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish papers that
apply scientific rigor to the study of complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) modalities, particularly traditional Asian healing systems.
eCAM emphasizes health
outcomes, while documenting biological mechanisms of action. The journal has
recently announced eLetters, a system allowing
readers to instantly generate feedback on articles published online.
http://ecam.oupjournals.org/
2. Public Library of
Science
PLoS
currently offers two journals online --
Biology and Medicine
-- and has just announced the 2005 launch of three new open-access journals:
PLoS
Computational Biology,
PLoS
Genetics,
and
PLoS
Pathogens.
http://www.plos.org/
3. BioMedCentral
BMC
Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an
Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of
complementary and alternative healthcare interventions.
BioMedCentral journals are
some of the first to be indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed,
MEDLINE, CAS and Scopus.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccomplementalternmed/
4. National Institutes
of Health, U.S.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
announced its new policy on enhancing public access to archived publications
resulting from NIH-funded research. Beginning May 2, 2005, NIH-funded
investigators are requested to submit to the NIH National Library of Medicine's
(NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) an electronic version of
the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication, resulting from
research supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs1
from NIH. This archived copy will subsequently be made available online through
PubMed at no cost 12 months after being published in
a traditional journal.
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html
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