dear colleagues, Open Society Institute published a series of guides to assist journal developers and publishers to create Open Access Journal. This guide provides a good starting point for those contemplating the launch of a new journal based upon an Open Access business model that provides free availability of research papers. For those who are already in the process of launching an Open Access journal, this Guide provides resources to help ensure that your planning is complete u can see it on: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/html/business_planning.htm -- Shri Ram Pandey Information and Knowledge Management Trainee NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore Official mail: shriram@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.