Docwonk, Final OA thoughts, Free Government Information, June 2, 2006. Excerpt:
As i go two days over my guest blog status [at Free Government Information], i wanted to share a couple of resources for "further reading" in regards to Open Access and other issues:...
My cubicle neighbor at the University of California at Berkeley helped work on the UC Berkeley Faculty Conference on Scholarly Publishing March 31, 2005 [i can still hear her hair pulling at times] which resulted in this webpage Scholarly Publishing - New Models that provides nice background information and links.
If you are looking for databases of freely available OA journal information available on the internet there are many "out there", but two i recommend are:
Gold Rush which provides access to over 50 open access databases and over 8000 open access journals in a variety of subject areas.
Genamics JournalSeek that includes a description of the journals as well as link outs to database and indexing information via Openly Jake.
It is a public policy mistake to delay access to the public that paid for research and the US research community, especially if content is released immediately to third world countries that could be our enemies. It is not is the best interest of the country or its citizens. Nor is it fair.
Don't forget to share you views with Congress as legislation is being considered and remember to: OpenTheGovernment.org! Perhaps i'll see some of you in NOLA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/03/2006 10:11:00 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.
