JCO’s Research To Be Free One Year After Publication

The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), the authoritative source for current information on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer, has announced that it will immediately begin providing free online access to original research articles older than one year at www.jco.org. Online readers will be able to access JCO research that is more than 12 months old without a subscription; this includes articles published from January 1999 to the present. (All ASCO Clinical Practice Guidelines and Special Articles, the "Art of Oncology" series, all editorials, and the correspondence section are free immediately upon publication.) The January through March 2003 articles will be released first, and the remainder back to 1999 will be opened over the next several weeks. Click here to see press release dated March 16, 2004 announcing this initiative.

ASCO Signs "Washington, D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science"

Representatives from the nation’s leading not-for-profit medical/scientific societies and publishers, including the American Society for Clinical Oncology, have announced their commitment to providing free access and wide dissemination of published research findings. Their commitment was conveyed in the Washington, D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science — a statement representing 48 not-for-profit publishers, over 600,000 scientists and clinicians, and more than 380 journals. The D.C. Principles outlines the commitment of not-for-profit publishers to work in partnership with scholarly communities such as libraries to "ensure that these communities are sustained, science is advanced, research meets the highest standards and patient care is enhanced with accurate and timely information." Click here to see press release dated March 16, 2004 announcing this initiative.