Richard Wray, Commercial publishers face Scottish open access challenge, The Guardian, August 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Scottish librarians are considering making it compulsory for academic research generated in Scotland to be made freely available to all over the internet in the latest move towards the open access model that presents a challenge to traditional commercial publishers such as Reed Elsevier....In its draft declaration, the group says the traditional way of disseminating research through subscription-based journals 'severely restricts access to leading edge research'. In contrast, open access publishing 'provides a more cost-efficient means of disseminating the outputs of research funded from the public purse'."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/20/2004 09:39:00 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.
