X-Posting Open Access Thread from Moderation

[SteveGrenard]

Since this thread may have some more direct relevance in this forum, I am cross posting these posts here as well. Hopefully under the circumstances this is not a violation of forum rules:

Thread Name: Open Access/PubMed Central & Copyright Restrictions

I am not sure where on here to place this but thought this would be as good and as relevant a place as any. The issue of people pouncing on other people over copyright restrictions frequently comes up here. Today I was introduced to a new NIH website called PubMedCentral which indexes all sorts of journal articles and places their content and abstracts in the non-commercial public domain. The moderators and members here may find a visit worthwhile and interesting. I went to the main site and entered the name of this publication in the search string and got back its first TOC with clickable links as the Craig indicates below.-s.g.

The following e-mail was received by me (sg) from a colleague and editor of a herpetological publication which contains the relevant links:

Dear Steve,

The journal AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE CONSERVATION [ARC], starting with this issue, will be open-access and available on the Internet for free downloading and distribution. This means you may distribute these articles to anyone on the Internet with no restrictions whatsoever. If you are interested in helping any serial publication become open-access, being permanently archived on PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov), and/or indexed with CrossRef (www.crossref.org) let me know and I can help. All author(s) will now retain copyright to all submitted material in ARC as well. The journal will continue to be printed in hard copy (~ 3,000 copies) for worldwide distribution to libraries, institutions, and individuals.

Attached are the upcoming articles (and cover) to appear in the next issue of ARC [November 2003 (Vol. 3, no. 1)]. Thought you might find them helpful and/or interesting.

One thing to note, the paper DOI numbers listed in the attached articles are presently being submitted to CrossRef and the articles will be available online as open-access (for more information on OA see: www.plos.org) very soon (archived at PubMed Central). We'll let you know when they are up.


Craig Hassapakis, Editor and Publisher
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

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As some may think this is only for a herpetology journal, and don't want to bother accessing the link themselves, I am reprinting the list of journals on open access herewith. No doubt some may be of value in the future of this board. As this open access thing blooms the moderators may want to consider modifying their stance on citations and full text quotes from these:

Journal Name --- Archive Starts With

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials Vol. 1(1); 2002
Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry Vol. 1(1); 2002
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Vol. 39(1); 1995
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 61(1); 1995
Arthritis Research Vol. 1(1); 1999
Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol. 5(1); 2003
Biological Procedures Online Vol. 1; 1998
Biomagnetic Research and Technology Vol. 1(1); 2003
BioMedical Engineering OnLine Vol. 1(1); 2002
BMC Titles [See complete list] Vol. 1; 2000
bmj.com Vol. 316(7131); 1998
Breast Cancer Research Vol. 1(1); 1999
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Vol. 88(1); 2000
Cancer Cell International Vol. 1(1); 2001
Cardiovascular Diabetology Vol. 1(1); 2002
Cardiovascular Ultrasound Vol. 1(1); 2003
Cell Biology Education Vol. 1; 2002
Cell and Chromosome Vol. 1(1); 2002
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology Vol. 2(1); 1995
Clinical Microbiology Reviews Vol. 8(1); 1995
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal Vol. 163(2); 2000
Comparative Hepatology Vol. 1(1); 2002
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation Vol. 1(1); 2003
Critical Care Vol. 1(1); 1997
Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine Vol. 1(1); 2000
Dynamic Medicine Vol. 1(1); 2002
eHealth International Vol. 1(1); 2002
The EMBO Journal Vol. 20(3); 2001
Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source Vol. 1(1); 2002
Eukaryotic Cell Vol. 1(1); 2002
Filaria Journal Vol. 1(1); 2002
Genes & Development Vol. 16(1); 2002
Genome Biology Vol. 1(1); 2000
Genome Research Vol. 12(1); 2002
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Vol. 1(1); 2003
Health Research Policy and Systems Vol. 1(1); 2003
Human Resources for Health Vol. 1(1); 2003
Infection and Immunity Vol. 63(1); 1995
International Journal for Equity in Health Vol. 1(1); 2002
International Journal of Health Geographics Vol. 1(1); 2002
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 1(1); 1994
Journal of Athletic Training Vol. 36(1); 2001
Journal of Bacteriology Vol. 179(1); 1997
Journal of Biology Vol. 1(1); 2002
Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology Vol. 1(1); 2001
Journal of Carcinogenesis Vol. 1(1); 2002
Journal of Clinical Investigation Vol. 109(1); 2002
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Vol. 36(1); 1998
Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines Vol. 1(1); 2003
Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 90(1); 2002
Journal of Nanobiotechnology Vol. 1(1); 2003
Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine Vol. 1(1); 2002
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Vol. 26(4); 2001
Journal of Translational Medicine Vol. 1(1); 2003
Journal of Virology Vol. 72(1); 1998
Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease Vol. 1(1); 2002
Learning & Memory Vol. 9(1); 2002
Lipids in Health and Disease Vol. 1(1); 2002
Malaria Journal Vol. 1(1); 2002
Medical Immunology Vol. 1(1); 2002
Microbial Cell Factories Vol. 1(1); 2002
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews Vol. 62(1); 1998
Molecular Biology of the Cell Vol. 8(10); 1997
Molecular Cancer Vol. 1(1); 2002
Molecular and Cellular Biology Vol. 18(1); 1998
Nuclear Receptor Vol. 1(1); 2003
Nucleic Acids Research Vol. 24(1); 1996
Nutrition Journal Vol. 1(1); 2002
The Plant Cell Vol. 1(1); 1989
Plant Physiology Vol. 101(1); 1993
PLoS Biology Vol. 1(1); 2003
Population Health Metrics Vol. 1(1); 2003
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 87(1); 1990
Proteome Science Vol. 1(1); 2003
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Vol. 1(1); 2003
Respiratory Research Vol. 1(1); 2000
Texas Heart Institute Journal Vol. 27(1); 2000
Thrombosis Journal Vol. 1(1); 2003
World Journal of Surgical Oncology Vol. 1(1); 2003

Forthcoming Journals

American Journal of Human Genetics
Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research
Canadian Veterinary Journal
Cell Stress and Chaperones
Epilepsy Currents
Journal of Athletic Training
Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
The Royal Society of London: Philosophical Transactions Series B, and Proceedings Series B

 

[BillHoyt]

As this open access thing blooms the moderators may want to consider modifying their stance on citations and full text quotes from these:...

Nonsense, Grenard. PMC does not hold the copyright on those journals. It does not claim to hold the copyright. Copyright remains with either the author or the publisher. You do not have the right to violate those copyrights.

Cheers,

 

[BillHoyt]

"Who controls copyright privileges for the material archived in PubMed Central?

Copyright to all material deposited in PMC remains with the publisher or individual authors, whichever is applicable. PMC is simply an archive and does not claim copyright on any material in the archive."

PubMed Central

Steve,

Your post ought to be either withdrawn or corrected. Archiving to PubMed Central does not mean relinquishing of either the publisher's or author's copyrights.

Cheers,

 

[Rolfe]

Who wants to scroll through and/or read long quotes anyway? It's much better to post the link, then people can access that in a separate window if they want, without making the discussion scroll off the page. The originals usually have better formatting than a pasted excerpt anyway, making them easier to read.

Steve has a bad habit of posting long lists of papers, UNLINKED, and saying, hey, look at all this. There's no way I'm going to start finding these one by one, though if they appeared as links there's a chance I might at least have a look.

The idea that we might get the entire papers dumped in the forum as cut-and-paste does not strike me as a significant improvement on this, however.

Rolfe.