Association of College and Research Libraries supports open access to National Institutes of Health funded research

NEWS
For Immediate Release
August 30, 2004

Association of College and Research Libraries supports open access to
National Institutes of Health funded research

CHICAGO-The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) strongly
supports reforms that will make federally funded biomedical research openly
accessible and available on line and at no extra cost to the American
public.

ACRL has sent letters to Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and to members of Congress encouraging them to
ensure that peer-reviewed articles on taxpayer-funded research at NIH
become fully accessible. The letter to Dr. Zerhouni is available online at
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/nihltr.htm.

In addition, ACRL has joined the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, an informal
coalition of libraries, patient and health policy advocates, and other
stakeholders who support reforms that will make publicly funded biomedical
research accessible to the public. ACRL also encourages libraries and
institutions to join the Alliance.
Today the vast majority of research funded with public dollars is available
only through increasingly costly journal subscriptions (often costing
thousands of dollars annually for a single journal), institutional licenses
(more than a million dollars annually for many universities), or per
article purchases (as much as $30 per article). Alliance supporters
believe the current system of subscription-based access to scientific
research is economically unsustainable and effectively impedes the dissemination and
use of research that has been paid for with public dollars.
Libraries and institutions wishing to join the Alliance for Taxpayer Access
will find more information on its website: www.taxpayeraccess.org. A
membership form is available at: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/member.html

Members of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, at formation (in alphabetical
order), include:

AIDS Action Baltimore
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
American Association of Law Libraries
American Library Association
American Medical Student Association
Arthritis Foundation
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
Association of College & Research Libraries
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Association of Research Libraries
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and Congenital Hepatic
Fibrosis Alliance
Boston College Libraries
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
Coalition for Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue
Colorado State University Libraries
Conquer Fragile X Syndrome
Down Syndrome Treatment and Research Foundation
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
Genetic Alliance
International Mosaic Down Syndrome Association
IsoDicentric 15 Exchange, Advocacy & Support
Medical Library Association
National Alliance for Autism Research
National Coalition for PKU & Allied Disorders
National Fragile X Foundation
National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
New England Biolabs
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association
Public Knowledge
PXE International
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Spina Bifida Association of America
Tourette Syndrome Association
University of Connecticut Libraries
Wayne State University College of Nursing


ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing 12,000
academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the
only individual membership organization in North America that develops
programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and
research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community
to understand the role that academic and research libraries play in the
teaching, learning and research environments.


Contact: Ray English
Chair, ACRL Scholarly

Communications Committee
Ray.English@oberlin.edu

Annals of Internal Medicine

Online access to the Annals of Internal Medicine has been restored.
http://www.annals.org/

AJR : American Journal of Roentgenology.

Online access to AJR is being denied.
http://www.ajronline.org/
The publisher is attempting to fix it . Hope to be back up shortly.

In the meantime, the UCHC library still has the print subscription available for use.

Location:	Journal Stacks--cannot be checked out
Status:	Not Charged
Recently Received:	v. 183, no. 2 (2004 Aug.) v. 183, no. 1 (2004 July)
Library has:	v.126 (1976)-v.182 (2004)

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Highwire Press website is available again

Highwire Press website is available again. http://highwire.stanford.edu/

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Contemporary Pediatrics

Contemporary Pediatrics is no longer freely available on PDR.net. UCHC library users may access using iCONN - The Connecticut Digital Library , in the InfoTrac Database.

Full text issues are available from v.16:no.4 (1999)- .

PNAS and open access

http://www.pnas.org/
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
I am sending the following message on behalf of the PNAS publisher, Ken Fulton; however, please respond to me if you have questions or comments.

Thank you,

George Kendall
Production, Marketing, and Licensing Manager
PNAS
E-mail: gkendall@nas.edu
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Dear Colleague,

The benefits of open access to the scientific literature are obvious and unassailable, and this year we instituted an open access option for authors.

We also believe that it is essential to involve institutions in open access for its long-term viability, and beginning in 2005, each PNAS Institutional Site License will automatically include an Institutional Open Access Membership. Corresponding authors from institutions with 2005 Site Licenses/Open Access Memberships will receive a 25% discount off our Open Access Fee (regularly $1000) to make their papers immediately free online. We offer this plan without increasing our site license rates over 2004.

A number of librarians have told us that they support this new initiative, and we hope that it will provide an incentive for institutions to adopt site licenses, to which we have given added value. Please help us inform
authors at your institution about the PNAS Open Access Option and the 2005 Site License/Open Access Membership discount. PNAS is a break-even operation and relies about equally on author fees and on subscription fees to cover its operating costs.

The 2005 PNAS site license rates are at www.pnas.org/subscriptions
.
Sincerely,

Ken Fulton, Publisher
PNAS