From: Mary Summerfield <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:39:58 -0700

I hope the following news will interest you; please excuse cross-posting.

SPIE launches new open access program for all journals

22 August 2012

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- 21 August 2012 -- SPIE has announced a
new program that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a
journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary
page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright
under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.

The new program covers articles in the SPIE journals:

* Optical Engineering

* Journal of Biomedical Optics

* Journal of Electronic Imaging; co-published with IS&T

* Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS

* Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

* Journal of Nanophotonics

* Journal of Photonics for Energy.

SPIE will continue open access publication at no cost to authors for
all review and tutorial articles, and will continue to deposit
NIH-funded articles with PubMed Central on the authors' behalf.

"SPIE is excited to offer this innovative open access program to
further advance our goal of providing access to optics and photonics
information to the broadest possible readership." said SPIE
Publications Committee chair John Greivenkamp (College of Optical
Sciences, University of Arizona). "This is the most cost-effective
solution to the challenge of open access that I know about!"

"The voluntary page charges are modest, but help support the journals
and enable provision of open access," said SPIE Publications Business
Development Manager Mary Summerfield. "For journals with two-column
pages, the rate is $100 per published page; for journals with one
column, it is $60 per published page. Thus, for a Letter the cost will
be approximately $300 and for an average full paper it will be $700 to
$800.  SPIE Journals will continue to offer subscriptions so that
authors who do not want to or cannot afford to pay these page charges
can continue to publish their articles in these journals."

With more than 375,000 journal articles and conference proceedings
papers and 167 SPIE Press books, the SPIE Digital Library is the
world's largest collection of optics and photonics literature.

To support researchers in developing or low-income countries, SPIE
participates in the eJDS program of the Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics, providing papers on demand to
individual scientists, and the Information Network for the
Availability of Scientific Publications PERii program, providing
access to libraries in developing nations at low or reduced rates.

Earlier this year, SPIE announced a freeze on subscription prices for
2013 -- the fourth freeze or price decrease in as many years -- in
response to financial pressures faced by subscribing libraries.

SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, a
not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based
technologies. The Society serves nearly 225,000 constituents from
approximately 150 countries, offering conferences, continuing
education, books, journals, and a digital library in support of
interdisciplinary information exchange, professional growth, and
patent precedent. SPIE provided over $2.7 million in support of
education and outreach programs in 2011.

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Media contact:
Amy Nelson
Public Relations Manager, SPIE
+1 360 685 5478
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This news release may be found at http://spie.org/x90264.xml

Best regards,

Mary Summerfield

Publications Business Development Manager
SPIE
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