Here's an editorial of possible interest in this week's New England Journal of Medicine on the imminent (May 2) implementation of NIH's open access policy: Public Access to NIH-Funded Research. New England Journal of Medicine [0028-4793] Steinbrook, R. 2005 352(17) 1739 http://tc.liblink.umn.edu/sfx_local?sid=Entrez:PubMed&id=pmid:15858180
Discusses some of the possible short-term implications for authors and for PubMed Central.