Friends: Here is an item from Peter Suber's blog. Arun ---- ACRL journal now OA with six-month embargo The ACRL has announced that new issues of College & Research Libraries will be available free online after a six month embargo. From yesterday's press release: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that its scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries is available free of charge in PDF format on the ACRL website six months after publication. Retrospective issues now are available through volume 58 (1997). "The editorial board is delighted that the journal is freely available in its electronic form,” said William Gray Potter, editor of College & Research Libraries. “This new arrangement will benefit both the authors and the readers by making the articles more widely available. Exposing the content to Internet search engines will also make it easier to find and read the articles. At the same time, we are committed to preserving the rigorous review process that has served ACRL and the profession well over the past sixty-six years." ACRL supports open access to scholarship as a principle for reform in the system of scholarly communication. In addition to this new access to College & Research Libraries, ACRL encourages author self-archiving of its published articles in both institutional and disciplinary repositories. “College & Research Libraries is a premier journal for research related to academic libraries,” said ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee Chair Ray English. “Making the contents of the journal openly accessible, following a six-month delay, will be of great benefit to practicing academic librarians and researchers, and it will also help authors increase the impact of their work. This move underscores ACRL's strong commitment to access to scholarly research.” Permanent link to this post Posted by Peter Suber at 11/09/2005 04:51:00 PM.