E-books stir up discussion
The future for reference publishing will be entirely electronic, according to Steven Hall, journal sales and marketing director of Blackwell Publishing, speaking at the…
June/July 2006
Part of the family
When the average researcher pulls the latest issue of a journal off a library shelf, or downloads an article from their desktop computer, they…
Open access is much wider than just readers not paying
How do you define open access? MR: Our definition is freely-accessible online at point of publication without any charges to readers. We are…
Academics have access anyway
How do you define open access? MM: Giving a definition goes to the heart of the problem with open access. In principle it is…
Text mining of subject archives will enable new facts to be discovered
What is your view of open access? RT: We want the digital versions of papers to be available to all in an unrestricted way…
Self-archiving should be mandatory
How do you define open access? SH: My definition is the same as that of the Budapest convention: that open access gives free online…
The environmental community will embrace open access
How has the journal developed? TS: New Journal of Physics (NJP) was started in 1998 by IOPP and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, the German physical…
Many areas of research are funded by taxpayers but they do not see the results
What has driven open access? MC: The open-access movement is driven partly by the frustrations at the barriers in the toll-access model. Researchers might…
The first priority should be awareness-raising
What is open-access trying to address? AS: The challenges to overcome are the current barriers to the effective dissemination of scholarly research results. That means…
Our community is used to immediate release of preprints
What is CERN's view of open access? JV: Our definition is that everything should be freely available, to everybody, without any embargo. This goes…
Get research authors to change their behaviour
What is your definition of open-access? LC: Open access is the policy of making scientific and scholarly research output freely available for those who…