News About Open Access

Information sent to 'American Scientist Open Access Forum'

ISI press release says: "Today, Thomson ISI... announced that journals published in the new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in the world of scholarly research... Of the 8,700 selected journals currently covered in Web of Science, 191 are OA journals... [A study on] other OA journals perform differently from other journals in their respective fields [found] that there was no discernible difference in terms of citation impact or frequency with which the journal is cited."

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26th March 2004:

The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science increases access to new research findings, while maintaining high standards forresponsible scientific publishing.

"As scholarly, not-for-profit publishers, we reaffirm our commitment to innovative and independent publishing practices and to promoting the wide dissemination of information in our journals. Not-for-profit scientific, technical, and medical publishers are an integral part of the broader scholarly communities supporting scientists, researchers, and clinicians. We work in partnership with scholarly communities to ensure that these communities are sustained and extended, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards, and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information."

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