Colin Meek, BMJ's legendary leader moves on, Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 17, 2004. On Richard Smith's departure from BMJ for a European branch of United Healthcare Group. Excerpt: "The movement to make original research freely available online is progressing rapidly with the launch of the Public Library of Science's PLoS Biology and later this year, PLoS Medicine. The latter will compete with general medical journals, such as BMJ. BMJ itself will bring in some user charges for BMJ.com next year, although the original research will remain free. Smith says the move to restrict access was inevitable." (PS: This is confusing. If charging for access to *some* content was inevitable, then why put this sentence right after one about PLoS, which charges for *no* content? Could Meek have meant that *lifting* access restrictions was inevitable? Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr. for the link.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/17/2004 06:02:00 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.
