Alison McCook, Open access journals rank well, The Scientist, April 27, 2004. Responses to the ISI report. Quoting James Pringle, Thomson ISI's VP for Development in Academic and Government Markets: The report contains "good news to all sides of the [OA] debate". Jan Velterop and I argued that the news is good for OA journals and that their impact factors will grow over time as they become even better established. Jan also argued that the data show that OA and conventional journals are "indistinguishable, from a quality point of view", contrary to allegations from some major commercial publishers.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/27/2004 12:37:00 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.
