I saw some messages on free access journals. In case some of you are not aware of it there has been a very active forum on that topic for the past 20 years. I think there is a historical file as well, dont know how far back it goes. A lot of reference librarians belong to it. Also many of the people connected with current free access systems in physics and other disciplines (medical, biology, etc) American Scientist Open Access Forum < AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org> toRecipients of AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM digests < AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM@listserver.sigmaxi.org> -- Distinguished Professor Emeritus Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff