E-Journals and Open Access
Backfile Open Access
Some journals allow open access to their backfiles. HighWire Press
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As of 5/14/07 there were 8 free trial sites, 37 completely free and 237 e-journals with free back issues.
Open Access to Selected Content
Some journals allow some open access, particularly if the information could literally save lives, e.g. during the SARS crisis.
New England Journal of Medicine
The ratio of open access was 2:1 in one issue, 1:2 in an earlier one.
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Articles which may have appeared in The Horn Book Magazine but some which appeared only on the website. To parents
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Open Access to a Sample Issue
Some journals allow open access to a sample issue, e.g. English for Specific Purposes has Volume 26, Issue 1, 2007 accessible as a sample issue.
Open Access to Developing Nations
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) operated by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) has negotiated access with many major publishers to allow access in countries where very few, if any, subscriptions could ever have been affordable. Such open access publishers as BioMedCentral and PloS waive the author fee for authors from developing nations.
Open Access by Author Choice
Many publishers are exploring the open access publishing model within their subscription based titles, i.e. authors or some benevolent agency can pay for accepted, peer-reviewed articles to be made freely available although the journal itself requires a subscription.
Such publishers include:
ACS AuthorChoice option
Since it was made available in October, 2006 6 authors have so chosen as of May 14, 2007.AIP Author Select
An Open Access Initiative"The goals of this expanded initiative and the reduced fees are, first, to support any author who wishes to publish in AIP's high-impact journals and, second, to see whether prepublication article payments produce enough revenue to allow us to hold down, reduce, or, ideally, eliminate library subscription prices," said Marc H. Brodsky, AIP Executive Director and CEO. 2/3 AIP journals currently offer Author Select.Elsevier
The Royal Society
The Royal Society launched ExiS Open Choice on a test basis in June 2006 Jon Boone wrote in the Financial Times, June 20, 2006 that the Royal Society virtually invented the subscription-based system of peer-reviewed scientific journals in 1665 and was now, "virtually tearing up its 340-year-old business model .... allowing people to read its new scientific papers free of charge." Despite the hyperbole, this experiment is generating a lot of interest, both in the academic and publishing worlds.
Currently, all papers appearing in Royal Society journals can be accessed free of charge after 12 months.
Such articles are discovered and accessed by:
Scopus
The View at Publisher link in the search results.ChemPort Connection
The fulltext link in SciFinder Scholar.Genamics JournalSeek
Access is also available from the journal website. Use JournalSeek to locate journal homepages.