I just mailed the November issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it gives a brief update on the NIH open-access plan, makes the case that journals should post their access policies to their web sites, summarizes the Citicorp report on Elsevier and open access, and reflects on who should control access to publicly-funded research.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/02/2004 10:03:00 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.
