A selected list of online journal publishers with links to Copyright/Permissions and Open Access policies where available.
Sherpa (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access), an independent group investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication and publishing, maintains a searchable Archive of summaries of permissions normally provided with publishers' copyright transfer agreements.
Many publishers, but not all, have position statements on the Open
Access issue or for accommodating researchers' requirement to comply with the
NIH Enhanced Public Access Policy,
effective May 2, 2005. Link directly to NIH
Manuscripts Submission System (NIHMS) for complete submission
instructions.
Open Access Publishers & Journal Lists - see Selected List of Open Access Journals - from the Scientific Library's Online Journals list