New open access agreement for Oxford Journals and National Library of Medicine
28 November 2006Oxford Journals today announced a new agreement with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that will allow all content published as open access under its Oxford Open model to be available from PubMed Central.
The agreement makes it easier for authors publishing with Oxford Journals to meet the requirements of their funding bodies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who request all NIH-funded content to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of online publication.Previously, authors who chose to participate in the Oxford Open initiative were entitled to self-archive a post-print of their accepted manuscript and/or the final published version of their article into an institutional or central repository. The new agreement means that all content published under Oxford Open will be immediately deposited into PubMed Central by Oxford Journals directly. Oxford Journals has published almost 2000 open access articles in 2006 through its Oxford Open models, including optional open access for 49 journals, and full open access with Nucleic Acids Research.
“Developing our support for repositories like PubMedCentral remains a vital component of our open access strategy,” commented Martin Richardson, Managing Director, Oxford Journals. He continued,
“We recognise the importance of ensuring that our authors are able to comply with the policies for those funding their research, and in particular any requirement there is to make the material publicly available as soon as possible after publication. Deposit of open access articles by the Publisher, on behalf of authors, will also benefit readers who will know that they are accessing the version of record.
“Our agreement with the NLM will also enable us to comply with the recently-implemented Wellcome Trust policy, facilitating content to be automatically deposited into the UK PubMed Central when it is up and running.”
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Notes to Editors
To read more about Oxford Journals’ open access initiatives, visit the Oxford Open website
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