Dear Emma,
why pay £170 for access through the subscirption agent? You could use and
favour DOAJ instead!
http://www.doaj.org/
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free,
full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to
cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1148 journals in the
directory. Currently <http://www.doaj.org//jorart>310 journals are
searchable on article level. As of today 54661 articles are included in the
DOAJ service
Regards
Jan
At 10:46 2004-07-23, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>We have recently had notification that BioMed Central titles are available
>through our subscription agent gateway in addition to being available
>directly from the publisher site. Initially we were pleased to hear this,
>before we discovered that we would have to pay an annual fee of £170 for
>access.
>
>Has anyone else had the same experience? We are a bit confused as BioMed
>Central are "committed to providing immediate access without charge to
>over 110 peer-reviewed biological and medical research open access
>journals it publishes." Does this mean they are only free from the BioMed
>site or free at whatever point they are accessed?
>
>Regards,
>Emma
>
>
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