January 30, 2004

2 Routes to Open Access: Archives and Institutional Subscriptions

By LILA GUTERMAN

The Promise -- or Pied Piper -- of 'Open Access'

Publishers Fear Government InterventionBy LILA GUTERMAN

Universities that want to support open-access publishing of scientific research have found two ways to do so: create their own archives and buy institutional subscriptions to author-pays journals.

The institutions can sign up with BioMed Central, a commercial publisher of more than 100 author-pays