WormBook in Genetics: access and choices

Dear All, I would like to address some questions that have come up regarding the partnership with the GSA and access to WormBook in the journal GENETICS. As I said in a quote to the GSA blog, “WormBook in GENETICS will continue a great community tradition and will strengthen our longstanding association with GENETICS, which began with the publication in 1974 of Sydney Brenner’s landmark paper.   That association has grown, which is apparent in the many papers that appear every year in GENETICS and G3, as well as in the GSA’s sponsorship of the C. elegans meetings.” GSA provides a sustainable platform for publishing WormBook, as well as the editorial and production resources of GENETICS.  However, because the GSA will be fully funding publication of new WormBook content, WormBook chapters will adhere to the journal’s current access policies, unless authors or institutions choose to subsidize immediate open access, including a Creative Commons license. In practice, the journal’s access policy will not make much difference for most members of the community, who will continue to have immediate access to GENETICS content through their libraries and GSA memberships–which includes very low cost membership categories.  Furthermore, anyone who cannot pay may request individual article PDFs from the GENETICS Editorial Office. The access issue was the subject of much discussion before we finalized the relationship.  But it is important to underst...
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