The address of this
page is
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/openaccesstips.html
or use the shorter....http://tinyurl.com/ywqrp5
Open access journals
make their content available online without charging fees
to readers or libraries.They
are peer-reviewed and often have citation rates and
impact factors equal
to traditional subscription-based journals. Benefits for authors
include expanding
the potential distribution of your research to a global audience,
regardless of the
reader’s ability to pay.
• Consult the Directory
of Open Access Journals for a list of more than 2000
open
access titles.
• Check the Author’s
Advice page at SHERPA for funding agency rules and
publishers’
copyright agreements -
• Take advantage of
VCU’s Supporting Membership in BioMed Central to
receive
a 15% discount on author charges.
For more
details, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com
.
• Consider commercial
publishers who are experimenting with different models.
Selected titles
from these publishers charge authors a fee to permit open access.
NIH allows
grant funds to pay for publication fees.
Here are a
few of the publishers with current initiatives:
American
Chemical Society AuthorChoice
American
Physical Society Free to Read
Blackwell’s
Online Open --
BMJ
Unlocked –
Cambridge
Open Option
Karger
Author’s Choice
Oxford
Open
Springer
Open Choice
Taylor
& Francis iOpenAccess
Wiley
Funded Access
For more information
on issues in scholarly communication:
Create
Change
http://www.createchange.org
VCU
Libraries Scholarly Communications Clearinghouse
http://www.library.vcu.edu/scholarcomm/
Prepared by Lynne
Turman, VCU Libraries
April, 2007