I know this really doesn't address the issue specifically, but I was
impressed with the fact that EBSCO has two volumes available online (if
your university subscribes and, of course) if you work at a University.

Also, for those who were not at the Fall Conference on Sunday, there was
some discussion about getting all the back issues scanned and put online.
I think that the two editors were looking into this. I have resources if
needed to scan all issues and make them available on a website here if
someone will give me permission from SRS. An organization maintains
ownership of a journal.

Thanks - Richard


W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD, APRN-BC
Professor and Director PhD Program
Editor, Journal of Holistic Nursing
School of Nursing
University of North Carolina Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Phone: 336-334-4785
FAX: 336-334-3628



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Yes . . in a similar way . . . I have been saying for some time that we
should place back issues of Visions on the web to people can have access
to them. Copyright or not . . . I have now decided to do this myself with
my own Vision articles. I have been converting all the articles I've
written to pdf files and I am going to put them on my web site. I am sure
that this may be a violation, but right now, I really don't care. It is
prartically useless to keep writing articles when so few people actually
have access to the Journal. I don't think putting back issues on the web
will effect our membership.

Howard Karl Butcher, RN; PhD, APRN, BC
Associate Professor
324NB
The University of Iowa Collge of Nursing
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1121
319-335-7039
howard-butcher@...



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Sent: Wed 11/2/2005 7:33 AM
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Subject: [Martha_E_Rogers] Moving to open access journals

I know we have had the discussion before - and may not resolve it in a
forward thinking direction now - but i think the trend is definitely
moving against inertia in this regard. Here is a link to a story about
open access journals from BioMed Central a large publisher of online,
open access journals.

Here is the BioMed Central description of Open Access publishing:

"BioMed Central Open Access Charter

Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in any journal
published by BioMed Central is 'open access', meaning that:

1. The article is universally and freely accessible via the
Internet, in an easily readable format and deposited immediately upon
publication, without embargo, in an agreed format - current preference
is XML with a declared DTD - in at least one widely and
internationally recognized open access repository (such as PubMed
Central).

2. The author(s) or copyright owner(s) irrevocably grant(s) to any
third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce
or disseminate the research article in its entirety or in part, in any
format or medium, provided that no substantive errors are introduced
in the process, proper attribution of authorship and correct citation
details are given, and that the bibliographic details are not changed.
If the article is reproduced or disseminated in part, this must be
clearly and unequivocally indicated.

BioMed Central is committed permanently to maintaining this open
access publishing policy, retrospectively and prospectively, in all
eventualities, including any future changes in ownership.

BioMed Central has established an independent Board of Trustees. If
and when a change of ownership should be considered, the Board of
Trustees will be asked to judge and advise whether sufficient
guarantees to continue a policy of unconditional open access for
research articles are being offered and agreed by any prospective new
owner. BioMed Central will not enter into a change of ownership
agreement unless the Board of Trustees accepts these guarantees.

Any change in the composition of the Board of Trustees will be subject
to approval by a majority of the existing members of the Board of
Trustees.

The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:

Brian Haynes, McMaster University, Canada
Steven Hyman, Harvard University, USA
Marc Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, USA
Philippe Kourilsky, Institut Pasteur, France
David Nathan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research, UK
Sir Richard Peto, University of Oxford, UK
Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Kyoto University, Japan"

link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/charter


and here is a link to a survey about open access authors:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber_2005_survey_final.pdf

bear










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