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Open Access Week October 19-23, 2009
About Open Access
The Open Access (OA) initiative supports making scholarly peer-reviewed
articles freely available on the Internet, either immediately or after
a defined embargo period. The focus is on world-wide, barrier-free,
open access to the full text of research and creative literature, using
a funding or economic paradigm that differs from current journal
publishing models. For more information, Peter Suber, a leader in the
Open Access movement, has written an excellent overview.
Please also see our Open Access FAQs.
Open Access publishing provides benefits to:
- Clinicians. Clinicians around the world have free access to the latest peer-reviewed evidence to treat patients and improve treatment outcomes. Physician scientist Ida Sims speaks about the value of open access publishing, especially of clinical trials, to her work.
- Researchers. Researchers have access to the latest papers to inform their own work. In addition, papers published as open access have a greater impact on their field than non-OA papers. There is also literature that support the Effect of Open Access on Citation Impact.
- Patient Care and Public Health. Patient care and public health both benefit when practitioners and the public have access to free, high-quality information about disease prevention and treatment options.
- The Scientific Enterprise. Science progresses by making use of previous discoveries, techniques and technologies. The pace of science and research accelerates when more researchers have access to more published peer-reviewed scientific and technical articles.
Open Access Journals
Open Access Repositories
For a full list of open access repositories, click here.
Paid Memberships
The Library currently supports three institutional memberships with open access publishers.
- Biomed Central, MSK authors receive a 15% page charge discount for papers published in BMC journals. The Library is a Supporter Member of BMC.
- Nucleic Acids Research, MSK authors are eligible for discounted page charges of up to $1,335 per manuscript.
- Public Library of Science, MSK authors are eligible for a 10% page charge discount for papers published in PLoS journals.
Policies, Initiatives and Open Access News
Content editor, Alexandra Sarkozy
Last revised:
October 28, 2009 11:13 AM EST
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