Open Access Coming to IOVS [Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science]

"Ever since the internet became widely accessible in the 1990s, there has been increasing interest in making the world's scholarly journals available to all without subscriptions. While publishers initially opposed this, it became clear that the concept of unrestricted access to journals was gaining momentum. Many new journals were started under the open access model, and this has put pressure on traditional publications to do the same. IOVS [Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science] was already participating in free access by providing a 6-month embargo date, and the other ARVO [Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology] journals, Journal of Vision and Translational Vision Science & Technology, were always free access with copyright held by ARVO. Now, it is with great pleasure that I announce that IOVS will go open access starting January 1, 2016...."