title: Updating realistic access.
abstract: Nearly six years ago Ira Mellman, then Editor-in-Chief of the JCB, published an editorial entitled "Providing realistic access" (1). It described the Journal's efforts to reconcile its subscription-based business model with the goal of providing public access to scholarly journal content. Since then, developments in the public-access movement are bringing us closer to the ideal of universal public access. But will there still be a place for selective journals like the JCB when we achieve that objective?
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rossner
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D015706:Bibliometrics; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing