Today's Sacramento Bee is running an editorial endorsing open access, PLoS, and the Sabo bill. After quoting Elsevier's Pieter Bolman asserting that research articles are "very esoteric" and "not written for the public", the editorial replies: "Such thinking seems more self-serving than public minded. Patients with serious health conditions don't find studies about potential new treatments esoteric in the least. Neither do scientists who can't afford to subscribe to every journal with relevant material....Here's hoping that PloS succeeds and that Congress approves current efforts to improve public access to public research. If that happens, the public will win, too."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/19/2003 11:23:00 AM.
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.
