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April 12, 2005

PNAS experimenting with Open Access

PNAS and Open Access
By Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

As I announced in a recent Editorial, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) has begun an Open Access (OA) option, whereby authors may pay a surcharge of US$1,000 to make their paper freely available on the PNAS and PubMed Central (PMC) websites immediately upon publication. The experiment will run until 31 December 2005. The PNAS will then consider ways to make the journal entirely OA, maintain the option in the same or modified form, or discontinue the option.

From Nature Web Focus: Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues

Posted by amcmanus at April 12, 2005 10:14 AM