Japanese authors are asking Japanese libraries to stock fewer copies of their books, to stop lending new books in the first 3-6 months after their publication, and to pay authors a fee in proportion to the number of copies lent. (Thanks to LIS News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/15/2003 12:22:00 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.
