Editorial Open access publication is growing in importance

News from Australia that the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy has been redeveloped as an online publica-tion through BioMed Central, with all attendant privileg-es including immediate inclusion in PubMed Central, demonstrates how much the nature of scientific publica-tion has changed in just a short period of time. For its en-tire history, the JMPT has been the only scientific journal published by and for the chiropractic profession to ever have been selected for inclusion in Index Medicus (which is not to sleight the inclusion of Chiropractic History in the archival/historical section of PubMed). Yet it will no longer be alone in achieving this status, which is also an acknowledgement about how great an impact open access publication is having. What is “open access ” and what are its implications