A New York Times article by Amy Harmon, dated December 17, 2002, entitled
"New Premise in Science: Get the Word Out Quickly, Online", is about the proposed
open-access journals of the Public Library of Science. The article
contains the comment (on page 2): "The journals will initially ask most
authors to pay about $1,500 per article, for exposure to a wider potential
audience and a much faster turnaround time". Not mentioned are the fee
waivers proposed in the Journals
section of the PLoS website: "...we will substantially reduce or waive the
publication fees for any authors for whom they would be a burden".
Posted by
Jim Till at 1/04/2003 01:06:00 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.
