BMJ  2004;329 (9 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7470.0-g

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A hybrid for open access

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Open access publishing has risen in prominence in recent months. The Public Library of Science's new medical journal, launching on 21 October, will champion this publishing model, whereby full text research articles are freely available. The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee rebuked larger commercial publishers for a 58% hike in journal prices from 1998 to 2003. The committee believes that the increase has created an "impending crisis," where academic libraries struggle to purchase subscriptions to journals their readers need, in a world where large commercial publishers make obscene profits and research institutions pay twice: to fund research then access it when published in subscription journals. Free, interlinked, institutional research repositories are the way forward, the committee concludes (24 July, p 188).

Last month, the US National Institutes of Health announced a consultation document on requiring all NIH funded research to be freely available on PubMed Central—NIH's . . . [Full text of this article]

Kamran Abbasi, acting editor

(kabbasi@bmj.com)


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