AVS/AIP Open Access journals

Biointerphases
2006
http://www.biointerphases.org/
Full Text Open Access ...
$500 for articles of 6 or fewer published pages
$800 for articles of over 6 published pages
American Vacuum Society
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Biomicrofluidics
2007
http://bmf.aip.org
Full Text Open Access ...
$300 for articles of 8 or fewer published pages
$450 for articles of over 8 published pages
American Institute of Physics

Royal Society of London. EXiS Open Choice

Royal Society tests new system of free access to papers.

Authors, or their research sponsors, who choose to pay to make their papers immediately available online will be charged £300 ($553, €439) per A4 page...
Papers will be placed in PubMedCentral.

Articles are freely available one year after publication.

The Royal Society hopes to test the viability of the scheme by charging the full economic cost of publication.

The Royal Society describes their Open Access trial at
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=4838

See also the earlier discussion of their position on Open Access at
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3967

Nature Open Peer Review trial

Our online trial opens up a parallel track of peer review for submitted papers for authors willing to go down that route. The traditional process will still be applied to all submissions selected for peer review. But we will also offer to post the submitted manuscript onto an open website. Anyone can then respond to it by posting online comments, provided they are willing to sign them. Once Nature's editors have received all the comments from their solicited confidential reviewers, the open website will cease to take comments, and all the opinions will be considered by the editors as well as the authors.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7094/full/441668a.html

Scholarly Publishing Practice: 2006 ALPSP Survey

New ALPSP survey reveals trends in journal publishing - 02 Jun 2006

A summary of the main conclusions can be found at www.alpsp.org.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), US, has carried out a second major study on the policies and practices of 400 international academic journal publishers, both non-profit and commercial. The survey has revealed facts and figures on the way publishers are responding to the challenges of the online world.

The survey, ‘Scholarly Publishing Practice: Academic journal publishers’ policies and practices in online publishing,’ was conducted by John Cox of John Cox Associates Ltd. and Laura Cox of Frontline Global Marketing Services Ltd. during 2005-end. According to the findings, about 90 percent of journals are now available online, generally with their backfiles as well; pricing and licensing models are evolving rapidly to meet customer demands; and there is widespread experimentation with full open access journals.

A response rate of 55 percent was achieved (including all the major publishers), providing hard evidence of the significant changes in publishing policy and practice that have been made since the first survey was undertaken in 2003. Of the 174 publishers who responded, 123 also publish books and 33 publish databases.