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Definition of Open Access |
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OMICS endorses the definition of open access publication drafted by the Bethesda Meeting on Open Access Publishing. However, OMICS has chosen to apply the less-restrictive Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish. Unlike the Bethesda Convention, the CCAL allows commercial re-use of all OMICS journals' content. |
An Open Access Publication[1] is one that meets the following two conditions: |
- The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship,[2] as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
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- A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving(for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).
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| [1] Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or publishers. |
| [2] Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now. |
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Other Open Access Resources |
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BioMed Central: BioMed Central is a for-profit open-access publisher, with a diverse group of peer-reviewed journals. |
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Budapest Open Access Initiative: BOAI has published a number of Open Access Journal Business Guides. |
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DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals is a clearinghouse for free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. |
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House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into scientific publications report Scientific Publications: Free for All? View as HTML / View as PDF (1.4MB) |
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SciDev.Net: The Quick Guide on Science Publishing offers insight into the discussions on this topic and an overview of new initiatives to make science literature more accessible. |
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SPARC: SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition, is an alliance of academic and research libraries and organizations working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system. SPARC is a partner of PLoS. |
| SPARC Open Access Newsletter: Written by Peter Suber of Earlham College, this site contains a tremendous amount of information about the open access movement, including a definitive guide, historical timeline, and upcoming conferences. |
| Open Access News Blog written by Peter Suber |
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Funding the Way to Open Access
This essay by Robert Terry of the Wellcome Trust published in PLoS Biology March 2005 issue discusses the Trust's commitment to seeking better ways to disseminate research findings, how their analysis of the economics of publishing supports an open-access publishing business model, and their proposal for launching a UK version of PubMed Central. |
| Wellcome Trust reports on scientific research publishing: |
| Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing (April 2004) follows up the September 2003 report to assess actual costs of publishing scientific, technical, and medical research in peer-reviewed journals. The report provides evidence that an author-pays model offers a viable alternative to subscription journals. |
| Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (September 2003) offers a thorough investigation of the complex market of scientific publishing. The findings of this report contributed to the Trust's position statement in support of open-access publishing. |
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World Summit on the Information Society: Open access facts and resources. |
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OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. |
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SPARC Europe is an alliance of European research libraries, library organisations and research institutions. We provide a voice for the community, and the support and tools it needs in order to bring about positive change to the system of scholarly communications. |
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RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. |
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Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. |
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Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. |
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The Dramatic Growth of Open Access Series tracks key data for open access resources (open access journals, archives, items in archives) on a quarterly basis. |
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Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies |
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