COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) launched in March. Its mission is to develop a Code of Practice for the collection and exchange of data on the usage of electronic journals and other e-resources. It aims to have a draft code by the end of this year. COUNTER has the support of many important library and publishing groups, such as ARL, ALPSP, ARL, JISC, NISO, PA, and UKSG. (Thanks to Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/08/2002 02:33:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.