Royal Society position

Royal Society cautions against rapid shift to open access.
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3882

Spelling out its stand on the open access (OA) debate, the UK's Royal Society has expressed concern that the haste with which funding bodies are forcing researchers to publish their papers through the OA model may have "disastrous" results.
At present, all papers appearing in Royal Society journals can be accessed free of charge 12 months after their publication.


42 Royal Society Fellows respond.
http://www.frsopenletter.org/

The Royal Society defends its stance on OA

The Royal Society, UK's autonomous scientific academy, has hit back at its critics who recently alleged that the society was taking a negative stance on open access. According to society officials, the letter was written by OA journal publisher, BioMed Central. The OA publisher has also confessed to have helped coordinating the letter but refused to brand it as a BioMed initiative. In the process, BioMed Central has also named another open access publisher, the Public Library of Science, to have helped BioMed Central design the letter.

ACS Legacy Archives

Effective 2006, the ACS current Web Edition subscription includes articles published from 1966+.

The ACS Legacy Archives also requires a subscription and includes articles published between 1879-1995.

Each journal home page (e.g. http://pubs.acs.org/journals/achre4/index.html ) has a 'search the journals' link that provides author, title, abstracts or full text searching (with Boolian AND, OR, NOT) of: ASAP; Current + 4 years; Archives; All or a user defined date range. In addition, individual or all journals can be searched.

Copyright Term and the Public Domain

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

RSC policy on CIFs

The RSC official position on publication of crystal structure atomic coordinates in CIFs :

"The RSC has a non-exclusive licence from authors to publish CIFs in RSC journals (print and online). The copyright for this material remains with the authors."

Dr Jamie Humphrey, BA MA CSci CChem FRSC,
Editor, Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry.

Hybrid Open Access Models (JBC, IUC, Sp, EDP, PNAS

'JBC Papers in Press' provides 'Open Access' to articles accepted by the Journal of Biological Chemistry prior to copy editing and publication.[1] Published articles from previous years are freely available each January 1.

The International Union of Crystallography offers 'Open Access' to both current or previously published research article for a fee of $800. Free access is provided to all non-article material (e.g. Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Book and Software Reviews, etc.).[2]

Springer-Verlag provides both subscriber-only papers and open-access papers (with minimum payment of $3,000 US. [3]

EPJdirect, formerly a separate journal, now appears in form of regular, online-only supplements in the various sections A-E of the European Physical Journal.[4] Both access and submission are free.

PNAS authors of research articles may pay a surcharge of $1,000 to make their paper freely available through the PNAS open access option. If your institution has a 2006 Site License, the open access surcharge is $750. All articles are free online after 6 months.

[1] http://www.jbc.org/pips/pips.0.shtml
[2] http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/iucr/stcttee04.html#open
[3] http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,1-40359-0-0-0,00.html
[4] http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=epjdirect

e-Prints - Publisher's Policies

e-Prints -- Journal Policies - List of Publishers
http://romeo.eprints.org/publishers.html

GRAY = No green light yet from publisher
PALE-GREEN = Publisher's green light to self-archive pre-refeeeing preprint
GREEN = Publisher's green light to self-archive refereed postprint
The number in square brackets is the id number assigned to this publisher by SHERPA.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Free access to Cell Press archive

Free access to Cell Press archive

Access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent archive of these journals includes content that is 12 months old or older and dating back to content from 1995. Each month as new issues are published, the year old issues will be added to the freely accessible recent archive. Free access to the recent archive will be available on both ScienceDirect and on the Cell Press journal sites.

Caltech Authors' Self-Archive

Caltech Authors' Self-Archive
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/

Articles that were either published 'open access' or copyright cleared.
All of the material there can be retrieved from anywhere in the world.
The vast majority can also be freely retrieved from the publisher's website.