Ajit Varki, Open Access: The JCI has already shown it works, Nature, November 27, 2003 (accessible only to subscribers). A letter to the editor pointing out that the Journal of Clinical Investigation was free and online in 1996, long before PLoS Biology. Varki was the JCI editor at the time it converted to open access. (PS: For the record, Nature never said that PLoS Biology was the world's first open-access journal. And while JCI was a pioneer, it wasn't the first either. For the earliest OAJ's, see my timeline and let me know what I've missed.) (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/26/2003 02:43:00 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.
