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Sunday, July 11, 2004 |
Another contribution to the Nature OA debate. Bettie Sue Masters and Judith S. Bond, A professional society's take on access to the scientific literature, Nature, July 8, 2004. Excerpt: "The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the flagship journal of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB),
will celebrate its centennial in 2005....More recently, JBC has
provided free, on-line, full text searchable access to every published
article since its inception in 1905. The [ASBMB Journal of Lipid
Research (JLR)] now also provides
free, on-line access to every published article since its founding in
1959. Many other journals are now following suit but only a few have
succeeded in achieving the goal of making their entire contents
available in such a form. This activity was undertaken with the view of
providing a vital service to the biological sciences community but it
was not done without considerable thought and concern about its
financial implications. The cost of this process was in excess of
$700,000. The financial stability of the ASBMB and our business model
for publishing has allowed our non-profit organization to take on such
expenses, to serve our readers, authors and science. Our expenses are
paid by a combination of sources, primarily by page charges to authors
and subscriptions to individuals and libraries. In a recent survey of
over a 1,000 JBC authors, over 80% preferred this mode of covering
expenses to other models, such as authors or institutions paying all
the costs." [Open Access News]
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