Ulrich Herb, Schöne neue Welt des Open Access, Telepolis, September 14, 2006. (Thanks to Der Schockwellenreiter.) Part 1 of a multi-part story, this part focusing on price barriers to scientific research --either in the form of reader-side subscription fees or author-side publication fees. FWIW, here's Google's English.
PS: I can't tell whether Herb acknowledges two important qualifiers: (1) that most OA journals charge charge no author-side fees and (2) that more TA journals charge such fees than OA journals. He does acknowledge that OA archiving charges no user fees.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/14/2006 01:41:00 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.
