Saturday, November 12, 2005

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

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