I've just worked out an arrangement with dLIST and E-LIS, two OAI-compliant eprint archives for library and information science. They are willing to accept any articles on the topic of open access, as long as the copyright holder gives permission. So the next time I blog an article about OA that is not itself OA, I will link to my page appealing to the author to deposit the article and make it openly accessible. If other subject-oriented blogs and newsletters do the same for their subject areas, more authors will get the message: Publish anywhere you like, but at least deposit your articles in open-access archives! (PS: I thank Anita Coleman of dLIST and Antonella De Robbio of E-LIS for their rapid agreement on this plan.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/11/2004 02:13:00 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.
