Peter,
The publisher of Plant Physiology, ASPB, makes certain sections of its
journal available for free to all immediately on publication. This is
shown on the home page of the journal. The article on "Flavonoid
Biosynthesis" is in the "Update" section, which is always free on
publication. The article on "Genetic Control..." is not free on
publication so a subscription or pay per view ($5) is needed.
The journal -- along with about 100+ other journals that work with
HighWire Press to produce online journals -- makes all of the journal's
content free after one year. So the article on Genetic Control will be
free in a few months without a subscription.
See
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/01/highwire117.html
for more about the "Free Back Issues" program at HighWire, which ASPB
participates in. Quote from the above news release:
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"Stanford’s HighWire Press loads record number of free online articles
Relevant Web URLs:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
http://mywire.stanford.edu
HighWire Press recently welcomed the 100th scientific journal that provides free back issues online and uploaded the 330,000th free article.
Those figures make HighWire -- a Stanford University Libraries program
that hosts the online editions of leading scientific journals -- the
world’s largest database of free life science articles and second in size
only to NASA among free scientific article databases.
..."
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Let us know if you have questions/comments. HighWire Press' new site (in
beta test at URL shown above: http://mywire.stanford.edu ) tries to make
the information on what content is free much more visible to librarians
and researchers. Many publishers don't note even on their own journal
sites what their policy is about making back content free -- and some have
pretty remarkable policies! -- which has lead to questions such as yours
to this list.
John
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:43:53 -0600 Peter Scott <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> One of my users pointed out a problem with the online version of "Plant
> Physiology", June 2001; Volume 126, Number 2
>
> She could access the full-text of the article "Flavonoid Biosynthesis",
> but is prompted for a sign-in for "Genetic Control of Natural
> Variation..." in the same issue.
>
> Online web page is: http://www.plantphysiol.org/
>
> Anyone else having this problem?
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John Sack, Associate Publisher and Director,
HighWire Press, Stanford University
Phone: 650-723-0192; fax: 650-725-9335
http://highwire.stanford.edu/~sack/
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