Open Access Publishing

• Authors: Jocelyn A. Rankin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sandra Franklin, Emory University
• Proceedings Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Conference Name: Open Access Publishing Conference
• Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
• Conference Place: Centers for Disease Control & U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Volume/Issue: Volume 10 | Issue 7
• Publication Date: 2004-07-01
• Type of Work: Conference | Final Publisher PDF
• Publisher DOI: http://doi.org/10.3201/eid1007.040122
• Subjects: Health Sciences, Epidemiology; Health Sciences, Public Health; Language, Rhetoric and Composition; Information Science
• Keywords: Open Access Publishing; CDC; Peer-reviewed research; Digital archive

Abstract

An Open Access Publishing Conference was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 7, 2004, by the libraries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Emory University. Open Access is an emerging publishing model for peer-reviewed scientific research in which authors and their publishers grant free access to their work as long as the authors are acknowledged and the publisher ensures that the work is made freely available in a digital archive (1). The conference brought together key stakeholders including scientists, researchers, publishers, and librarians and included approximately 240 participants with 80 offsite registrants connecting through the simultaneous Web cast.