[BOAI] SPIE celebrates Open Access Week with expanded suite of access options

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from SPIE.  --Peter Suber.]



*For immediate release*

http://spie.org/x42456.xml* *

*SPIE celebrates Open Access Week with expanded suite of access options*

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- 19 October 2010 -- SPIE joins in the
celebration of Open Access Week 2010 (18-24 October) with an expanded suite
of open-access options to its scholarly publications on light-based science
and technology.

SPIE <http://spie.org>, the international society for optics and photonics,
continues to develop new models enabling online access without costs or
controls required of the reader, in support of its mission to provide the
widest possible dissemination of information. Open-access models vary across
the publishing world, with some enabled by author-pay programs or grants
that cover the costs of publication and ongoing dissemination.

"We look forward to continued exploration of open-access options, informed
by discussion with the scientific and engineering communities we serve,"
said Director of Publication Eric Pepper.

SPIE programs providing open-access to full papers include:

·         *SPIE Letters <http://spie.org/x904.xml>*, a virtual journal of
short, rapidly published peer-reviewed articles judged to be of significant
originality and interest, and originally published in one of six SPIE
journals; available immediately as open-access at the home journal with no
charge to authors.

·         *SPIE Reviews <http://spie.org/x30977.xml>*, a peer-reviewed
journal launched in January 2010, with full-length review articles on
important emerging technologies in optics and photonics, including original
articles as well as review articles from other SPIE journals.

·         Author-choice immediate open access, available by author payment
in each of six SPIE journals.

·         *Journal of Biomedical Optics <http://spie.org/x866.xml> *(JBO)
authors may pay for open-access to begin one year after publication. (JBO
Letters are open-access immediately with or without the payment.)

·         Deposit of articles funded by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) in PubMed Central, automatically provided by SPIE at no cost at one
year after publication in the SPIE Digital Library.

·         Conference proceedings of the biennial
ETOP<http://spie.org/etop/>(Education and Training in Optics and
Photonics) Conference, convening
educators from around the world on the practice of teaching optics at all
levels.


All abstracts for the more than 300,000 journal articles and conference
proceedings papers in the SPIE Digital Library
<http://spie.org/x2836.xml>are freely available.

SPIE provides free access to other publications:

·         The *Journal of Photonics for Energy <http://spie.org/x40729.xml>*,
launching in January 2011. During its first year, all articles will be made
available with no charge to authors or to readers. JPE covers fundamental
and applied research in applications of photonics for renewable energy
harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, monitoring, consumption, and
efficient usage.

·         The SPIE Newsroom <http://spie.org/x1004.xml>, publishing optics
and photonics technical articles written by experts and organized by topical
interest area.

·         *Fundamentals of Photonics <http://spie.org/x17229.xml>*, 10
tutorial modules written by experts, part of a project funded by the Center
for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the Scientific and
Technological Education in Optics and Photonics (STEP), and supported by
SPIE and other organizations.

·         Optipedia <http://spie.org/x32276.xml>, a collection of
encyclopedic articles on key topics in optics and photonics. Text,
equations, and graphs were originally published in SPIE Press books.


SPIE also provides low- or no-cost subscriptions to institutions and
individuals in eligible countries participating in two programs: the
eJDS<http://library.ictp.it/ejds/>program of the Abdus Salam
International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
serving individual researchers; and
PERii<http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/perii.html>(the
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information), organized
by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
(INASP). SPIE subscriptions are provided to researchers at nearly 70
institutions through the INASP.

See the full list of SPIE open-access <http://spie.org/x34034.xml>offerings.

Read more about Open Access Week <http://www.openaccessweek.org/>.



*SPIE <http://spie.org/>*, the international society for optics and
photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving
more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances
emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange,
continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and
professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25
major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North
America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and supports scholarships,
grants, and other education programs around the world.



###

Media Contact:

Amy Nelson

Public Relations Manager
Amy at SPIE.org <amy at spie.org?subject=>
Tel: +1 360 685 5478
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/boai-forum/attachments/20101021/ff38fdb5/attachment-0001.html