In January the American Association of Publishers (AAP) released a public statement opposing the Sabo bill. On the one hand, it makes a good point that I made myself when analyzing the bill last July, namely, that copyright-holder consent works as well as the public domain in creating the legal basis for open access, and maybe even better. On the other hand, it naively underestimates the pressure that authors feel to transfer their copyrights to journals and, by confusing publication with "public access", naively overestimates the sense in which "copyright promotes public access to the results of federally-funded scientific research".
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/24/2004 09:10:00 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.
