Polimetrica has published an OA book on OA: Giandomenico Sica (ed.), Open Access, Open Problems, Milan, 2006. The entire book is free online (103 pp. PDF). Here's the table of contents:
Giandomenico Sica, Preface
Antonella De Robbio, Open Access al centro dei nuovi scenari di e-governance
Takashi Kunisawa, A concrete step for building public electronic archives of reviewed papers
Derek Law, Open Access: national policy initiatives as an alternative to personal commitment
Peter Suber, Unbinding knowledge: a proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important
Paul F. Uhlir, The emerging role of open repositories for scientific literature as a fundamental component of the public research Infrastructure
PS: I thank Polimetrica for its willingness to publish on the subject of OA and for its willingness to make the entire book OA. Polimetrica makes all its books OA, either immediately upon publication or after a certain number of copies have been sold. For details see the page on its editorial policy.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2006 10:28:00 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.
