The Washington, DC Principles for Free Access to Science is a statement
drafted and signed by a coalition of 50 leading not-for-profit scientific,
technical, and medical publishers to announce their commitment to
providing free access and wide dissemination of published research
findings. Together, these publishers represent more than 380 journals
and have archived nearly 800,000 articles online, of which some
447,000 are free to all. The journals represent more than 600,000
scientists and researchers. Health Affairs is a signatory
to the following document and participated in the March 16, 2004
press briefing to announce the DC Principles.
Washington D.C. Principles For Free Access
to Science
A Statement from Not-for-Profit Publishers
WASHINGTON, DC – As scholarly, not-for-profit
publishers, we reaffirm our commitment to innovative and independent
publishing practices and to promoting the wide dissemination of
information in our journals. Not-for-profit scientific, technical,
and medical publishers are an integral part of the broader scholarly
communities supporting scientists, researchers, and clinicians.
We work in partnership with scholarly communities to ensure that
these communities are sustained and extended, science is advanced,
research meets the highest standards, and patient care is enhanced
with accurate and timely information.
We continue to support broad access to the scientific and medical
literature through the following publishing principles and practices.
1. As not-for-profit publishers, we see it as our mission to maintain
and enhance the independence, rigor, trust, and visibility that
have established scholarly journals as reliable filters of information
emanating from clinical and laboratory research.
2. As not-for-profit publishers, we reinvest all of the revenue
from our journals in the direct support of science worldwide, including
scholarships, scientific meetings, grants, educational outreach,
advocacy for research funding, the free dissemination of information
for the public, and improvements in scientific publishing.
3. As not-for-profit publishers, we have introduced and will continue
to support the following forms of free access:
• Selected important articles of interest are free online
from the time of publication;
• The full text of our journals is freely available to
everyone worldwide either immediately or within months of publication,
depending on each publisher’s business and publishing requirements;
• The content of our journals is available free to scientists
working in many low-income nations;
• Articles are made available free online through reference
linking between these journals;
• Our content is available for indexing by major search
engines so that readers worldwide can easily locate information.
4. We will continue to work to develop long-term preservation solutions
for online journals to ensure the ongoing availability of the scientific
literature.
5. We will continue to work with authors, peer-reviewers, and editors
for the development of robust online and electronic tools to improve
efficiency of their important intellectual endeavors.
6. We strongly support the principle that publication fees should
not be borne solely by researchers and their funding institutions,
because the ability to publish in scientific journals should be
available equally to all scientists worldwide, no matter what their
economic circumstances.
7. As not-for-profit publishers, we believe that a free society
allows for the co-existence of many publishing models, and we will
continue to work closely with our publishing colleagues to set high
standards for the scholarly publishing enterprise.
The following not-for-profit publishers endorse the above principles:
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Pediatrics in Review
NeoReviews
American Association for Cancer Research
Cancer Research
Clinical Cancer Research
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
Molecular Cancer Research
American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Clinical Chemistry
American Cancer Society
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
American College of Chest Physicians
CHEST
American College of Nutrition
Journal of the American College of Nutrition
American College of Physicians
Annals of Internal Medicine
ACP Journal Club
American Dairy Science Association
Journal of Dairy Science
American Diabetes Association
Diabetes
Diabetes Care
Diabetes Spectrum
Clinical Diabetes
American Physiological Society
American Journal of Physiology (AJP)
AJP - Cell Physiology
AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism
AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
AJP - Renal Physiology
Journal of Applied Physiology
Journal of Neurophysiology
Physiological Reviews
Physiological Genomics
Advances in Physiology Education
News in Physiological Sciences
American Psychiatric Publishing
American Journal of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Services
Psychosomatics
Academic Psychiatry
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
Journal of Neuropsychiatry and
Clinical Neurosciences
American Roentgen Ray Society
American Journal of Roentgenology
American Society of Animal Science
Journal of Animal Science
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Molecular and Cellular Proteomics
Journal of Lipid Research
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Journal of Clinical Investigation
American Society for Clinical Nutrition
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
American Society for Microbiology
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Eukaryotic Cell
Infection and Immunity
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Virology
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Molecular and Cellular Biology
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
The Journal of Nutrition
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Pharmacological Reviews
Molecular Pharmacology
Drug Metabolism and Disposition
Molecular Interventions
American Society of Hematology
Blood
American Society for Investigative Pathology
The American Journal of Pathology
The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Journal of Clinical Oncology
American Society of Plant Biologists
Plant Physiology
The Plant Cell
Anthropology Review Database
Association for Molecular Pathology
The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities
Journal of Biomolecular Techniques
Biophysical Society
Biophysical Journal
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Genes & Development
Genome Research
Learning & Memory
Protein Science
RNA
Company of Biologists Limited
Development
Journal of Cell Science
Journal of Experimental Biology
European Molecular Biology Organisation
The EMBO Journal
EMBOreports
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
FASEB Journal
Genetics Society of America
Genetics
Project Hope
Health Affairs
Protein Society
Protein Science
Radiological Society of North America
Radiology
RadioGraphics
Royal College of Psychiatrists
British Journal of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Bulletin
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Experimental Biology and Medicine
Society for Leukocyte Biology
Journal of Leukocyte Biology
Society for the Study of Reproduction
Biology of Reproduction
Society of Nuclear Medicine
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Society of Surgical Oncology
Annals of Surgical Oncology
The American Society of Nephrology
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
The Botanical Society of America
American Journal of Botany
Plant Science Bulletin
The Endocrine Society
Endocrine Reviews
Endocrinology
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Molecular Endocrinology
Recent Progress in Hormone Research
The Histochemical Society
Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
The Physiological Society
The Journal of Physiology
The Rockefeller University Press
The Journal of Cell Biology
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
The Journal of General Physiology
Harvey Whitney Books
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Society of National Association Publications
Representing 265 publications
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