From the Editor: The Journey to Open Access

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-11

Summary:

"The American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology (AmSECT) was founded in 1964 with the belief that members of the then-new allied health field could best serve their profession by sharing their thoughts and experiences. The mission of AmSECT, since its charter, has remained the same, '… to foster improved patient care and safety by providing for the continuing education and professional needs of the extracorporeal circulation technology community' (1). The Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology has been one of the principle avenues used by AmSECT in pursuit of its mission through the publication and dissemination of scholarly work since 1967 ... Three years ago, the Journal Editorial Board began deliberate discussion about what could be done to further share our content and it became clear that 'open access' was a highly effective avenue to share more. According to Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, open access is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue (even profit), print, preservation, prestige, quality, career advancement, indexing, and other features associated with conventional scholarly literature (2). Furthermore, open access makes articles more visible, discoverable, retrievable, and useful to the broadest possible audience.  Opening access to the Journal’s content to the world was the right thing to do, and we determined that PubMed Central® (PMC) was the best vehicle to accomplish this objective ..."

Link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631209/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.societies oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.green oa.pmc oa.policies oa.repositories

Date tagged:

11/11/2015, 09:10

Date published:

11/11/2015, 04:10