Andrew Porter, Has Reed's Mr 10% lost his golden touch? Fears over growth at Crispin Davis's empire, London Times, January 12, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). On Elsevier's slowing rate of earnings growth. Excerpt: "And there has been another problem, also in America: the science-publication division has been hit in a revolt by academics and institutions....In addition, there has been unrest in the scientific community about some of Reed's methods of doing business. In America, the Public Library of Science, a non-profit organisation, launched a drive to make scientific and medical literature more accessible. It has made its first scientific journals freely available online. And in another move that will irritate Reed, Congressman Martin Sabo is sponsoring a bill that seeks to exclude any government-funded scientific research from having US copyright protection....In a further worrying development, two University of California scientists have proposed a boycott of six of Reed's biology journals, accusing the company of charging exorbitant fees."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/13/2004 09:31:00 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.
