Andrew Albanese, Cornell: Open Access Costly, Library Journal, February 1, 2005. Excerpt: 'A task force convened by the Cornell University Libraries (CUL) has delivered a sober assessment of author-pays open access (OA) publishing. Given the number of articles published by Cornell faculty members, the library system could "see its expenditures rise significantly if the library used its current subscription funds to pay for author fees." Instead, the task force predicts both subscriptions and open access publishing will coexist for the foreseeable future, particularly when subscriptions are "administered by scholarly societies, university presses, and academic libraries." ' (PS: For my thoughts on the calculation that OA journals would cost research institutions more than TA journals, see my comment on this blog posting from 1/23/05, last week.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/01/2005 09:09:00 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.
