Andrew Albanese, UK Report Calls for Publicly Available STM Research, Library Journal, August 15, 2004. Excerpt: "Open access supporters cheered. Jan Velterop, CEO of open access publisher BioMed Central, called the report the 'clearest political signal yet that open access to the research literature is to be regarded of great benefit to science and society.' For commercial publishers, there was less good news. The report criticized practices such as bundling and is unimpressed by the wave of statistics the industry has used to justify massive price increases. Arie Jongejan, chief executive of science and technology publishing at Elsevier, struggled to find a silver lining. Jongejan told London's Guardian that the company considers 'some of the concerns expressed in the report about government policy on scientific publishing to be overstated.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/15/2004 08:17:00 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.
