Earlier today, Dorothea [Salo] posted about her experience publishing with Library Journal/Elsevier and more recently, Sarah expressed some distaste for publishing with LJ/Elsevier again in the future....
It’s time to think more seriously about this: there needs to be an open access journal for librarians that can be the equivalent of Library Journal or better. How many librarians have to rely on either American Libraries or Library Journal for their professional development? How many are satisfied with this?
Now, I know that there are a number of open access journals that are related to librarianship, but I don’t think that many of them are widely read by librarians in the U.S. - at least, not the ones that relate to librarianship in general....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/17/2006 11:15:00 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.
