More on the Farhad Manjoo piece in Salon, The free research movement....I was wrong. The full-text is freely accessible online. Just click on the "Free Day Pass" ad in the upper right corner and wait a second. (Today the ACLU is the sponsor of the free day pass, but this will change.) Thanks to Carol Hutchins for reminding me of how Salon uses ads to support free online text. Excerpt from the rest of the article: "PLoS's philosophy, several supporters say, closely mirrors that of the open-source software world -- but if it succeeds, its fruits could conceivably be greater than simply producing a more stable operating system. It could lead, the people at PLoS say, to a revolution in science."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/01/2003 05:55:00 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.
