Who else promotes open access?
PLoS is one of several initiatives that promote open access to scientific and medical literature. Although they still represent only a tiny fraction of the published research literature, many open access journals have already been launched. A related project is the Open Archives Initiative, which encourages researchers and their institutions to establish free electronic repositories of research literature throughout the world. BioMed Central is a commercial publisher that is publishing original research papers using an open access model. There are also groups, such as the Open Society Institute and the Scholarly Publishers and Academic Resource Coalition, that are providing support and advocacy for open access publishing.
