I just mailed the February issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In this issue, I list six things that publishing scholars need to know about OA, and take a close look at how Google AdSense ads can help OA journals without creating conflicts of interest. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at new OA policy proposals from three continents, new books on OA, new developments among OA repositories and OA hybrid journals, and a little more news on the CURES Act.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/02/2006 12:06:00 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.
