Open access publishing takes off

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.1

BMJ 2004;328:1-3 (3 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.1

Editorial

Open access publishing takes off

The dream is now achievable

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. Thegreat social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty,and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impedeor disturb - those great social forces are against you; theyare marshalled on our side; and the banner which we now carryin this fight, though perhaps at some moment it may droop overour sinking heads, yet it soon again will float in the eye ofheaven, and it will be borne... perhaps not to an easy, butto a certain and to a not distant victory.

W E Gladstone, 1866.

For supporters of open access publishing, these are heady times.Over the past year the campaign to make the full text of originalresearch articles freely available via the world wide web hasmade rapid progress (box).

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