The debate of Open Access is really hot...as benefits from open science, self-publishing and self-archiving become clearer and clearer and, on the other side, there are new and imaginative solutions...to deal with the (a) inevitable...costs of publishing and (b) the benefits of peer review, the quintessence of scientific publishing.
While the balance among costs and benefits is a matter of arguments in the developed countries...the benefits side of open access seems to gain weight when the scales are placed on developing countries....
I here present a gathering — a reader? — of selected articles that should allow the reader to get a rough picture of the subject of Open Access for Development....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/08/2007 10:53:00 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.
