Paul Gilster, How to get the data out, the Raleigh News Observer, January 14, 2004. Excerpt: "Vast amounts of data are tied up in prestigious journals requiring expensive library subscriptions. When I needed an article by physicist Raymond Lewis on current work on anti-matter containment for a book chapter I was working on, I found the citation online in a journal called Advances in Space Research. The cost to read the entire article was $30. A few such articles quickly add up....The Public Library of Science (PLoS) changes the ground rules of academic publishing....Having just paid $110 for four NASA papers that were produced with the aid of taxpayer dollars, I find myself unusually sensitive to the cost of information. The open-access model offers great advantages to researchers and their institutions, not to mention the libraries that support them, but it will have to get past one huge hurdle. Specifically, prestige." (Thanks to Rosalind Reid.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/14/2004 01:38:00 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.
