Abagyan Lab supports the PLoS Initiative
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world, for the benefit of scientific progress, education and the public good.
They are working towards the establishment of international online public libraries of science that will archive and distribute the complete contents of published scientific articles, and foster the development of new ways to search, interlink and integrate the information that is currently partitioned into millions of separate reports and segregated into thousands of different journals, each with its own access restrictions.
To learn more about PLoS, point your browser to http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org
Here we present a short table (as of August 30, 2001) of the actual availability of papers and the corresponding journals. All the informations were provided by PLoS.
| Journal | Free full availabililty of the articles | Copyright | Are we happy? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PubMed Central | Immediately after publication | The authors |  |
| The British Medical Journal (no delay)
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (no delay) Critical Care (no delay) Breast Cancer Research (no delay) Arthritis Research (no delay) Respiratory Research (no delay) Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (no delay) | Immediately after publication | The publisher |  |
| Molecular Biology of the Cell (2 month delay)
Journal of the Americal Medical Informatics Association (6 month delay) Canadian Medical Association Journal (6 month delay) Cell Stress and Chaperones (6 month delay) Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (6 months delay) Applied and Environmental Microbiology (6 months delay) Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology (6 months delay) Infection and Immunity (6 months delay) Journal of Bacteriology (6 months delay) Journal of Clinical Microbiology (6 months delay) Journal of Virology (6 months delay) Molecular and Cellular Biology (6 months delay) | Within 6 months after publication | The publisher |  |
| The Cell (NEVER)
Nature (NEVER) Science (NEVER) The Plant Cell (2 year delay) Plant Physiology (2 year delay) Journal of Medical Entomology (1 year delay) Clinical Microbiology Reviews (1 year delay) Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (1 year delay) Biochemical Journal (delay interval unknown) Nucleic Acids Research (delay interval unknown) EMBO Journal (delay interval unknown) Cold Spring Harbor Press Journals (delay interval unknown) Genetics (delay interval unknown) American Journal of Human Genetics (delay interval unknown) Free full-text through HighWire Press (variable delay interval) Other journals | After 6 months to Never (or unknown delay interval) | The publisher |  |
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