The American Philological Association (APA) has launched a $4 million fund-raising campaign. It says it plans to spend $2 million on a "digital portal" to create "new tools for scholars everywhere to access primary source materials". But it never quite tells us whether it will offer open access or priced online access. (Thanks to Stoa Consortium.)
Comment. If OA is part of the plan, then the APA shouldn't be shy about saying so. Saying so should help the fund-raising campaign. My guess is that classicists are much more likely to contribute to a portal of OA literature than a portal of priced literature.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/02/2007 05:26:00 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.
