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Science Commons News: Elsevier, HHMI and Open Access

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Melies color Voyage dans la lune, by Georges Méliès, Public Domain.

From the Science Commons blog:

Elsevier – a dominant subscription-based publisher – has made a deal with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute regarding Open Access.

Announced today, the agreement will make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals available to the public (in PubMed Central) six months after publication. The conditions will be applied to articles published after September 1, 2007 on HHMI funded research.

More after the jump …

Posted 08 March 2007