Starting in January 2004, CrossRef will drop its DOI retrival fees for members and affiliates. Quoting the press release: "This move gives all CrossRef users unlimited access to DOIs, and is particularly significant for secondary publishers, as DOI links from citations and bibliographic databases to full text are expected to increase greatly as a result." BMC and PLoS already use DOIs, but CrossRef's decision should make it easier for other open-access publishers and journals to use them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/17/2003 05:35:00 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.
