Tim Burt, Reed shrugs off threat from free net rival, Financial Times, February 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Reed Elsevier, one of Europe's largest media groups, on Thursday defended its dominance of scientific publishing and scorned suggestions that a free internet rival could jeopardise its business model....[CEO Crispin Davis] also questioned...the value of publications that were not subject to tough peer review." (PS: Crispin Davis' public statements about open access need some peer review. Does he think that investors will not care that his assessments are this baseless and uninformed?)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/20/2004 02:46:00 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.