Bridget Meaney, Online journals make access easier, but often at a price, Medicine on the Net, May 16, 2003. A survey of the troubled journal industry from the standpoint of librarians. Meaney has collected some wonderful quotations from angry librarians who have had to respond to skyrocketing prices by canceling subscriptions. The solution? Variations on the theme of open access: government-funded, for-profit, non-profit, embargoed, and hybrid.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/16/2003 03:35:00 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.
