Free articles on open access in The Journal of Neuroscience

The Journal of Neuroscience published an
editorial by Editor-in-Chief Gary Westbrook on the ongoing debate
about open access in the scientific community
(http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/36/9077).  This
issue included the first in a series of weekly Commentaries on
science publishing that will appear in issues leading up to the
2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Five
individuals who have been involved in various publishing
experiments and enterprises were invited to give their viewpoints
on the challenges facing scientific journals publishing.  The
hope is that readers will find these opinion pieces intriguing,
while at the same time recognizing that the viewpoints expressed
are not necessarily those of The Journal or the Society
leadership.

Commentaries published to date in The Journal

John Willinsky
Why Open Access to Research and Scholarship?
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9078-9079; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2891-06.2006
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/36/9078>

Richard K. Johnson
Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9349-9351; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3130-06.2006
[http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/37/9349]

Paul Ginsparg
As We May Read
J. Neurosci. 2006 26: 9606-9608; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3161-06.2006
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/26/38/9606> ]

In forthcoming Issues of The Journal:
Richard Smith: Reinventing the biomedical journal. (September 27)
Matthew Cockerill and Vitek Tracz: Open access and the future of the
scientific research article. (October 4)

The Society for Neuroscience also will host a Publishing
Roundtable at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, which will be
moderated by incoming SfN President and former Editor-in-Chief of
The Journal of Neuroscience, David Van Essen. "(R)evolution in
scientific publishing: How will it affect you?" will be held
Monday, Oct 16, from 9:30 to 11:00 am. For details, please see

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