Citation
Blake, M. (2004), "Cell Press announces free access to recent online archive", The Electronic Library, Vol. 22 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/el.2004.26322fag.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cell Press announces free access to recent online archive
Cell Press announces free access to recent online archivewww.cellpress.com
Cell Press has announced that access to the recent online archive of Cell and the other premier journals of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005. The recent archive of these journals includes content that is 12-months-old or older and dating back to content from 1995. Each month as new issues are published, the year-old issues will be added to the freely accessible recent archive. Free access to the recent archive will be available on both ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and on the Cell Press journal sites (www.cellpress.com).
This announcement by Cell Press represents an important change that will make a large part of the Cell Press journal archive freely accessible to the worldwide biomedical research community. Cell Press President and CEO Lynne Herndon commented:
Our main goal is the dissemination of information and the active support of scientific exchange. In recognition of the opportunities afforded by electronic publishing, Cell Press is taking this decision in order to better meet the needs of our unique author and reader communities. This opportunity also allows us to incorporate the notion of an open archive without adopting the pay-for-publication model that we believe is untested from both an editorial and financial perspective.
Arie Jongejan, CEO, Science and Technology, Elsevier, added:
Cell Press publishes a suite of journals with a unique profile in biomedicine. Its readers expect science with immediate impact and its authors expect specialized care and extra speed. We support Cell Press’ unique role in the life sciences and within Elsevier.