From Frank Gannon's editorial "Change and Continuity",
The EMBO Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 pp. 1, 2004
"Our papers will continue to be freely available to all 12 months after
publication on the NPG and Highwire sites, and via PubMedCentral, and
freely available immediately after publication to scientists in the
least developed countries through the WHO-brokered HINARI agreement. In
addition, one other consequence of the change of publisher is that our
authors now retain copyright of their papers as well as the right to
self-archive."
Since this is a society journal, after all, I consider this a firm
commitment. However, there is another question of relevance here where
we still wait for answer from the new publisher, Nature Publishing
Group: archival access to paid-for content. Given the fact that many
libraries have been forced to cancel their EMBO subscription and now
must leave it to faculty to take out a personal subscription, the
question is whether these institutions will temporarily loose access to
the paid issues of 2003 when the grace period ends on March 31 or not.
Examination of the Oxford University Press license agreement shows that
they guarantee archival access to paid-for content only as long as they
have the right to publish the material.
Best regards,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
Louise Cole wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> Has anyone else noticed that the EMBO Journal free archives, which used
> to be available to all a year after publication, have now been switched
> to 'not decided'?
>
> The Highwire free article list at
> http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl has the latest
> information on all their titles which have free articles: numerous
> titles added for 2004 so worth checking if you haven't already done so.
>
> Louise
>
> Louise Cole
> Electronic Resources Team Leader
> Health Sciences Library
> University of Leeds
> Leeds
> LS2 9JT
>
> tel. 0113 34 35502
> fax. 0113 34 34381
>
> email. [log in to unmask]
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