Eric Ferreri, Colleges ax journals deal, the Durham NC Herald-Sun, January 12, 2004. Excerpt: "Having grown weary of the continuously escalating prices of academic journal subscriptions, four local universities [U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke, North Carolina State U, and North Carolina Central U] are taking something of a stand against the world's major publisher of scholarly research....Spokesmen for Elsevier did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this article....'It's been steadily getting worse for a decade,' said Robert Peet, a UNC biology professor whose departmental library spent $419,000 on 986 journal subscriptions in 2002-03. 'Now it's not sustainable at all. Nobody can pay for it.'"
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/13/2004 11:30:00 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.
