Infotrieve has acquired the assets of TheScientificWorld, which went out of business last year. TSW was not an open-access publisher, but was innovative in taking advantage of the internet, for example by allowing peer-reviewed papers to appear in every relevant subject domain covered by the publisher rather than just one journal. It offered free searching of its conttents, free access to abstracts, and free current awareness alerts.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/22/2003 02:57:00 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.
