The Public Library of Science offers an open-access collection of journals for the scientific community. The site hosts journals for Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens, PLoS ONE (general science and medicine research), and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The site is a model for how non-profit organizations (like the American Institute of Physics) could offer open-source access to their journals. PLoS charges the authors a fee to publish on their site to cover the cost of peer-reviewing among other costs.
For an idea of what open-source really means, this is from the site's FAQ:
Open access means everything published in PLoS journals is immediately available online for free. Read it, host it, print it, copy it, distribute it—all use is fair use, so long as the original authors and source are credited.-B. Miller
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