Excerpt from a notice in the November 9 issue of Kerala Next: "The first on-line open access medical journal from Kerala, [the Calicut Medical Journal], launched by the Kozhikode Medical College Alumni Association a week ago, has been drawing good response from all over the world. The decision of the world-famous open access e-print archives, Cog Prints, to archive the journal has also contributed in its big success, says P V Ramachandran, Professor of Radiodiagnosis, Kozhikode Medical College who is also the editor-in-chief of the journal. On the launching day itself, the site has registered 5,000 hits....'Open access journal is the best possible method for information dissemination among medical scholars from the third world countries,' [Ramachandran] said."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2003 07:41:00 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.