The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has always been a major supplier of open-access literature (250,000 titles, 32 million downloads every month). But now it will supply fewer print editions of the same titles. As part of a larger move to save money and refocus the agency on electronic-only publication, it will close the 13 GPO bookstores located outside Washington DC.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/04/2003 05:52:00 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.
