‘Game-changing’ new option is Open Access Week highlight for optics and photonics publisher
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-25
Summary:
"Journal editors are expressing enthusiastic support for a new open access option announced recently by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The new program provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. In adding to the options available to authors and readers, the program gives SPIE even more cause to recognize Open Access Week 2012(22-28 October), organized by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition... SPIE is also celebrating Open Access Week by opening selected papers from the SPIE Digital Library authored by 2012 Nobel Laureates. These papers will be freely accessible through 2012... 'Open access complements the primary mission of SPIE as a not-for-profit society: to foster knowledge transfer, education, and networking among researchers, technology leaders, educators, and students engaged in the industries we serve,' said SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs. 'This is a driving force in all of our programs, including our role as publisher...' To support researchers in developing or low-income countries, SPIE participates in the eJDS program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, providing papers on demand to individual scientists, and the Information Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications PERii program, providing access to libraries in developing nations at no or very low cost..."