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 each year, 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 requirements;

* 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

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

(INASP)

PO Box 516

Oxford OX1 1WG

Phone: (0)1865 249909

Fax: (0)1865 251060

e-mail: apowell@...

Web: http://www.inasp.info

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