Serial Killers, The Australian, May 29. A report on self-archiving initiatives in Australia, led by Colin Steele, Director of Scholarly Information Strategies at the Australian National University. Quoting Steele: "In five years' time there will probably be a small group of publishers who will charge very high prices for the top rank of scientific knowledge --the Elseviers of the world. Then, hopefully, there will be 80 per cent of scientific and social science material that will be available through eprint repositories where peer reviewing has been retained. The universities will be the winners because their research will be largely their own."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2002 10:05:00 AM.
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.
