An unsigned editorial in the Las Vegas Review Journal endorses open access, PLoS, and the Sabo bill. Excerpt: "Tax-funded research should be available to those who paid for it....Copyright and other intellectual property rights are also important, of course. But the underlying idea was to make scientific findings readily available -- not to sell monopoly rights for tax-funded research to profit-making companies which then, in effect, ration and limit their accessibility to the very taxpayers who funded the work. It's a new, electronic era. It's past time for the world of scientific publishing to catch up."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/14/2003 10:03:00 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.
