Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor-in-chief of Retrovirology, has written a milestone editorial for his journal. Synthesizing boyhood memories of the coup in Libya with the power inherent in controlling the channels of communication, Jeang makes a compelling case for OA.
KT Jeang. Mohmmar Qadaffi, Open Access, and Retrovirology. Retrovirology 2004, 1:24 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-1-24
In addition, he provides a league table of Retrovirology articles which have garnered a minimum of 1000 views (11 of 23 articles). I suspect the reality is even greater. I am unaware of a mechanism by which the article views from the PubMed Central mirror would be included in the count.
Retrovirology - Fulltext v1+ (2004+) BioMed Central | PubMed Central; ISSN: 1742-4690.
Posted by
George Porter at 9/03/2004 06:31:00 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.
