Oxford University Press reaches open access milestone
23 September 2010Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce that the 100th journal has now joined its Oxford Open initiative. The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Infectious Diseases, which are to be published by OUP on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America from 2011, have become the 100th and 101st journals to participate.
OUP launched Oxford Open in July 2005 with 24 journals. Over the past five years the programme has grown to include six ‘gold’ fully-open access titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, and 95 optional-open access titles, which allow authors to pay an open access publication charge to make their paper freely available online immediately. Authors also have their papers automatically deposited and made publicly available in PubMed Central by OUP, where subject relevant.Mandy Hill, Publishing Director, UK Academic and Journals, at OUP, said: ‘This milestone highlights our journals’ steady adoption of Oxford Open, making our ‘gold’ open access option available to more and more of our authors. As a University Press we are totally committed to meeting the publishing needs of the academic communities we serve. We are continuing to observe the progress of open access uptake and to share our findings with the scholarly community.’
Oxford Open includes titles from the full range of subjects published by OUP, including life sciences, medicine, law, humanities, maths, and social sciences. OUP also supports ‘green’ OA by allowing authors to deposit their ‘accepted’ manuscripts in institutional or subject repositories after a specified time period (dependent on individual journal policy).
For more information, please contact:
Rhodri Jackson
Publisher
Journals Division
Oxford University Press
+44 (0)1865 353510
rhodri.jackson@oxfordjournals.org
Lizzie Shannon-Little
Communications Executive
Academic and Journals Divisions
Oxford University Press
+44 (0)1865 353043
lizzie.shannonlittle@oup.com
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