Tom,
I believe there are a few scientific societies that already offere free
online access on HighWire Press at Stanford. It looks like they are Journal
of Clinical Investigation, BMJ (British Medical Journal), Clinical Medicine
NetPrints, and Advances in Physiology Education. They all offer a free site
through HighWire.
Alan Kahan
Director of Communications
Entomological Society of America
9301 Annapolis Road
Lanham, MD 20706
301-731-4535 ext.3020
301-731-4538 fax
alan_at_entsoc.org
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From: Thomas J. Walker <tjw_at_GNV.IFAS.UFL.EDU>
To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum
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Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 12:47 PM
Subject: Is ESA first?
>
> In June 1999, the Entomological Society of America starting offering
> authors in its journals immediate free Web access for their articles
> (a.k.a. "electronic reprints"). [It accomplishes this by making the PDF
> files of the articles freely accessible on its server.] In December, it
> lowered the price to 75% of the price of 100 paper reprints.
>
> ESA will soon announce to its members this new price and relatively new
> service.
>
> Would it be correct to state in the announcement that ESA is the first
> scientific society to offer its authors immediate free Web access for a
> (modest) price? If not, what scientific societies preceded ESA?
>
> [The Florida Entomological Society has been giving immediate free Web
> access to its authors since 1994, but will start charging for it when
> subscriptions decline.]
>
> Tom Walker
>
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