Today is fifth birthday of Open Access News. Blogger says it has 11,066 posts, which comes to about six a day. (About 200 were written by my co-contributors during the period when OAN was a group blog.) I'm sure that the last couple of years bring up the average and that the slope of the curve is rising rather than falling. There's nothing else I'd rather be doing right now, but that relentless growth is ominous and I have to keep reminding myself that it reflects the steadily mounting worldwide momentum for OA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/26/2007 09:42:00 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.
