EDITORIAL

Open access publishing

The Journal of medical genetics and open access publishing: to choose or not to choose?

Eamonn R Maher

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Correspondence to:
E R Maher
Birmingham, UK; ermaher@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk

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The Journal of medical genetics moves towards open access publishing

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Keywords: Open access publishing

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Open access publishing, broadly defined as content that is freely available on the Internet without the need of a subscription or payment, is the hot topic in journalology. Advocates of open access publishing have been buoyed by the agreement to fund publication charges by large agencies, such as the US National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Wellcome Trust. The open access model of publishing depends on switching publication costs from the current subscription model ("reader pays") to researchers ("author pays"). There are clear advantages in increasing accessibility to their research findings for well-funded research groups, particularly those funded by agencies that are committed to paying publication charges in open access journals. However, for some researchers, especially clinical researchers without large grants, there has been concern about the cost of publishing a paper in an open access journal – some journals have cited . . . [Full text of this article]

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