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OPEN ACCESS

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We are very pleased that this paper has received the citations it has, in part because in a small way it validates the open access publishing model." — James C. Carrington and Zhixin Xie, whose paper in PLoS Biology was picked as a Thompson-ISI "Fast Breaking Paper" (December 2005)

Other Open Access Resources

	BioMed Central: BioMed Central is a for-profit open-access publisher, with a diverse group of peer-reviewed journals.
	Budapest Open Access Initiative: BOAI has published a number of Open Access Journal Business Guides.
	DOAJ: The Directory of Open Access Journals is a clearinghouse for free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
	House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into scientific publications report Scientific Publications: Free for All? View as HTML / View as PDF (1.4MB)
	SciDev.Net: The Quick Guide on Science Publishing offers insight into the discussions on this topic and an overview of new initiatives to make science literature more accessible.
	SPARC: SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition, is an alliance of academic and research libraries and organizations working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system. SPARC is a partner of PLoS.
	SPARC Open Access Newsletter: Written by Peter Suber of Earlham College, this site contains a tremendous amount of information about the open access movement, including a definitive guide, historical timeline, and upcoming conferences.
	Open Access News Blog written by Peter Suber
	Funding the Way to Open Access This essay by Robert Terry of the Wellcome Trust published in PLoS Biology March 2005 issue discusses the Trust's commitment to seeking better ways to disseminate research findings, how their analysis of the economics of publishing supports an open-access publishing business model, and their proposal for launching a UK version of PubMed Central.
	Wellcome Trust reports on scientific research publishing:
	Costs and Business Models in Scientific Research Publishing (April 2004) follows up the September 2003 report to assess actual costs of publishing scientific, technical, and medical research in peer-reviewed journals. The report provides evidence that an author-pays model offers a viable alternative to subscription journals.
	Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing (September 2003) offers a thorough investigation of the complex market of scientific publishing. The findings of this report contributed to the Trust's position statement in support of open-access publishing.
	World Summit on the Information Society: Open access facts and resources.