The September issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue contains a major section on Scholarly Article Access. It covers the Sabo bill (good survey of opinion pro and con), my own newsletter (a favorable review), Open Access Now, the Bethesda statement, and a handful of articles on open access. (PS: I swear that Walt is warming up to open access. This is both his longest examination of open access in one issue and his friendliest. He's skeptical about some approaches and some arguments, but if he's still skeptical of open access itself, he doesn't say so this time.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/18/2003 10:23:00 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.