| dc.description.abstract | Background: Open access is making a noticeable impact on access to information.
In 2005, many major research funders, including the Well come Trust, National
Institutes for Health (NIH), and the Research Councils UK (RCUK), set out
their position in a number of statements. Of particular note was the stipulation
that authors receiving grants must deposit their final manuscript in an open
access forum within 6-12 months of publication.
Observations: The paper will look at the open access position statements issued
by some of the major funding bodies in the biomedical sciences. The paper will
also look at the models used by publishers to provide open or delayed access,
such as Oxford Open from Oxford University Press, HighWire Press' delayed
access policy, BioMed Central, and Public Library of Science (PLoS). There
are now over 1.2 million articles in PubMed that are freely accessible via
publishers' websites.'
Conclusion/discussion: Could funding agencies accelerate the move to open
access? The list of funding agencies supporting open access is growing. The
National Institutes for Health and the Wellcome Trust have been joined by
many of the world's major funders in biomedical research whose goal it is to
make their research findings available with no barriers. | en_US |
