The University of California has joined the Public Library of Science. Excerpt from today's press release: "Traditional scholarly publishing models --especially commercial publisher business models-- have limited the ability to maintain, much less increase the breadth and depth of library collections, because they are unsustainable for library budgets. 'The decision to join PLoS --clearly one of the leaders in the international movement to create unfettered access to scientific and medical literature-- was taken jointly by all of UC's campus libraries,' said Beverlee French, director for shared digital collections at UC. 'It reflects our unanimous resolve to address the unsustainable economics of current scholarly publishing by directing some of our scarce dollars away from over-priced journals and towards innovation.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/01/2004 10:42:00 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.
