Bobby Pickering, Cell Press gets the open access notion, Information World Review, August 21, 2004. Excerpt: "Another part of the Reed Elsevier empire has made a move to defend itself against the onslaught of the open access movement. Cell Press, the Elsevier imprint that publishes journals Cell, Neuron, Immunity and many others, says it will make its recent online archives freely available from January 2005. All contents of its journals more than 12 months old, and dating back to 1995, will then be available to any reader, and each month the year-old issue of each journal will be added to the archive. While acknowledging that Cell Press was attempting to meet the needs of its author and reader communities, CEO Lynne Herndon did caution against author-pays publishing. 'This opportunity also allows us to incorporate the notion of an open archive without adopting the pay-for-publication model that we believe is untested from both an editorial and financial perspective.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/21/2004 08:18:00 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.
