Agree, Neil - and as well as the journals, research registries (like ClinicalTrials.gov), data repositories and so on will also be increasingly sitting alongside. I think it's important to remember that other forms of research publishing, indexing, archiving and dissemination are also thriving, and innovation in technology and publishing/dissemination/library models goes beyond journals and articles. The discussion we're having now is not a journal.
Hilda
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Dear Suhail and all on Evidence-Based Health
++I think we are all agreed in one way or another that OA is really reverse restricted access...++
I disagree. I see Open Access as part of the solution to improving the availability and use of health information, and I see it becoming increasingly important over the coming years and decades. I also see initiatives to improve the availability of subscription-based journals as part of the solution, at least for the short and medium term. The best-known, but by no means the only such initiative, is WHO's HINARI Access to Research Programme, which provides free electronic access to thousands of journals to thousands of institutions in low-income countries; others such as INASP's PERii programme, African Journals OnLine and BioLine also offer support to journals based in low-income countries. Some journals based in LICs decide to go open-access, some stay as subscription-based. There are many excellent OA journals and many poor subscription-based journals.
So, in my view, both OA and subscription-based journals will sit side by side for many years to come.
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At 00:17 24/03/2012, you wrote:
Thanks everyone - I think we are all agreed in one way or another that OA is really reverse restricted access and the question now is what should our responsibility to academic publishing be from here on as evidence based researchers and practitioners. I would propose we develop some evidence based guidelines to protect ourselves as evidence based authors and will start off by proposing the following:
a) For authors with funds, use the pay per article facility for open access in conventional journals not "OA" journals as that would reinforce keeping submissions free for authors
b) try to avoid submitting to "conventional" journals that impose hefty page charges or editorial fees and thus are restricting access both ways (eg Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)
c) Favor journals that have embargoed access for a fixed period eg 1 year over indefinitely restricted journals wherever possible
Any thoughts or edits or additions?
Suhail
On 3/24/2012 3:24 AM, Jacob Puliyel wrote:
Dear All
This is another model that I think has potential to bring down costs to the minimum and yet be open access.
But it is very new and yet to become popular with researchers.
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