I just mailed the April issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at two publisher policies to charge fees for OA archiving (green OA): the AuthorChoice policy from the American Chemical Society and the new agreement between Elsevier and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The round-up section briefly notes 77 OA developments from March.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/02/2007 10:59:00 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.