Mark Chillingworth, Scots declare support for open access, Information World Review, August 19, 2004. Excerpt: "Scotland's academic library community has declared its support for Open Access (OA) journal publishing. The Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), has released a draft declaration describing the current subscription model as unsustainable. 'We believe that the interests of Scotland will be best served by the rapid adoption of open access,' SCURL states in its declaration. Chris Bailey, vice-chair of SCURL said: 'Research is funded by public money, the output of this research is given to the public sector freely who then charge for it, commercial suppliers are unreasonable.'...The draft declaration indicates that research grants should only be given on the caveat that findings are published in an open access journal or a repository. SCURL wants to promote authors to publish their findings in open access journals, and to help institutions set up self-archiving repositories."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/19/2004 10:43:00 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.
