Lee van Orsdel and Kathleen Born, Big Chill on the Big Deal?Library Journal, April 15, 2003. A very good survey of the reasons why the STM journal market is dysfunctional. It also points to some open-access alternatives, such as BMC, BioOne, Project Euclid, and DSpace. The article also contains nine tables of eye-opening data.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/26/2003 07:02:00 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.
