Oxford Open journals

Open-access articles published in over 50 journals in Oxford Journals' Oxford Open initiative are now automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC).

This means that authors who have paid a fee to make their articles open access in one of these journals will not need to deposit their article into PMC themselves. The final published version of their article will be freely available immediately via PMC and also directly from the journal website.

‘Automatic deposit of open access articles into PMC should increase dissemination of research and help to make the lives of authors easier,' said Martin Richardson, managing director of Oxford Journals.

Regular data feeds between PMC and the journals concerned have been set up. Recently published open-access content is being deposited first, followed by older content.