Free access to journals
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Dear Colleagues,
You may be interested to read the press release entitled "Top
Medical And Scientific Societies Commit To Providing Free Access
To Medical And Scientific Research" at:
http://www.dcprinciples.org/
Forty-eight non-profit publishers of 380 journals, representing
more than 600,000 members of medical and scientific societies,
and posting 800,000 articles on line each year, of which more
than 440,000 are free, have signed the "Washington DC Principles
for Free Access to Science," whose gist is:
* Selected important articles of interest are free online from
the time of publication;
* The full text of our journals is freely available to everyone
worldwide either immediately or within months of publication,
depending on each publisher's business and publishing require-
ments;
* The content of our journals is available free to scientists
working in many low-income nations.
A list of the journals can be found at:
http://www.dcprinciples.org/signatories.htm
Best wishes,
Anne Powell
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publi-
cations (INASP)
PO Box 516
Oxford OX1 1WG
mailto:apowell@inasp.info
http://www.inasp.info