This site links to selected documents pertinent to the transition of traditional science journals to the Web.

Informative links

Two routes to open access. A talk given to a session of the ACRL Science & Technology Section,

during the 2004 summer conference of the American Library Association.

Open access by the article: an idea whose time has come?, an invited contribution to

Nature's web forum: "Access to the literature: the debate continues." Published 15 April 2004.
Manuscript submitted 28 March 2004.

How BioOne might further open access. (email sent 28 April 2003)

How two societies have profited by offering immediate free access to journal articles. A talk prepared for the

18th International Learned Journals Seminar, held 12 April 2002, in London, by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. Also, a paper for Learned Publishing based on that talk.

Market-driven free access to journal articles. (The Scientist 15:43; 11 June 2001)

IFWA sales: how wide a road? (8 June 2001)

Authors willing to pay for instant web access. (Nature 411: 521-522; 31 May 2001)

FOS Newsletter (Peter Suber's Free Online Scholarship Newsletter; March 2001-date) A valuable source of news and

discussion of the migration of print scholarship to the Internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge.

Future e-access to the primary literature (a Nature web debate, 5 April 2001-date;

more than 20 invited contributions from leading representatives of the main groups of stakeholders).

Sales of free access to articles in the journals of the Entomological Society of America.

A market-driven transition to immediate free Web access to journals and the potential role of PubMed Central.

(submitted to the PMC advisory committee, March 2000)

The future of scientific journals: free Web access?, a PowerPoint presentation with notes. (March 2000)

American Scientist online forum on providing free online access to the journal literature. (archives, 1998-date)

Free Internet access to traditional journals. (American Scientist 86: 463-471, 1998)

Three things researchers can do to promote free access.

Papers on electronic publishing and electronic commerce by Andrew Odlyzko.

Papers on online research communication and open access by Stevan Harnad.

Substitute copyright release allows authors to retain Web-archiving rights.

Resolution for free Web access to journal articles, a way for members of scientific societies to speed

acceptance of free Internet access to journal articles.

Questionnaire reveals what researchers think about free Web access to journal articles. (Oct 1999)

Costs of posting PDF files for one year of an average journal is $26. (July 1998)

Costs of posting PDF files for a year of an average journal for 30 years is less than $1000. (Dec 1997)

PDF vs. HTML. PDF retains the formatting of articles as they are presently produced (and archived)

and is very affordable. (Aug 1997)

Journal of Clinical Investigation, published by the American Society of Clinical Investigation since 1924,

has been available on the Web without charge since 1996.

New copyright policies, recently adopted by the Ecological Society of America give authors and teachers

broad authority to copy, distribute, and post articles published in the Society's journals. The new policies apply both to past and future issues. (1998)

Electronic reprints--Segueing into electronic publication of biological journals. (BioScience 45: 171, March 1996)

E-publication by Florida Entomological Society

Florida Entomologist on WWW, first on the Internet.

Fiscal health and viewership of the Florida Entomologist. (10 June 2008)

Fiscal outlook for the Florida Entomologist. (10 January 2006)

Excel workbook with detailed data used in developing the above report. (10 January 2006)

Report to the FES Executive Committee. (19 July 2005)

Open access to the web version of Florida Entomologist. (21 April 2004)

Excel workbook with detailed data used in developing the above report. (21 April 2004)

Florida Entomologist back-issue project made vols. 1-76 (1917-1993) freely accessible on the Web. (30 Sep 2004)

Report on fiscal consequences of open access to Florida Entomologist. (26 Sep 2003)

BioOne and PMC: progress report on improving free access to Florida Entomologist. (17 Dec 2002)

Proposal to join BioOne: spending IFWA fees for better free access. (17 Sep 2002)

Report on e-publication of Florida Entomologist, 2001-2002: a surplus of IFWA fees. (15 Jul 2002)

Report on e-publication of Florida Entomologist, 2000-2001: IFWA fees established. (20 Jul 2001)

FES e-pub press release concerning Society's experiments with immediate free web access. (28 Sep 2000)

Report on e-publication of Florida Entomologist, 1999-2000 shows increase in library revenues. (31 Jul 2000)

Florida Entomologist on PubMed Central, a new way to serve Florida Entomologist authors. (23 Sep 1999)

Impact of e-reprints on Florida Entomologist subscriptions is negligible. (3 Aug 1998)

InfoLinks let authors permanently append material to their articles.

(first offered Oct 1997)