I just mailed the March issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at recent steps to strengthen the NIH policy and three trends that could cause collateral damage to OA: the webcasting treaty, the opposition to network neutrality, and the end of free email. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at Hindawi's simultaneous conversion of 13 subscription journals to OA, new support for OA to data, OA commitments in Spain, the launch of Open J-Gate, and several recent awards that honor and recognize work on OA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/02/2006 12:25:00 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.
