Comment. Kudos for putting OA on the shortlist of criteria. I only wish that the data on how countries rank on providing OA had been open and current. Vexen’s OA rankings are from a May 2005 article in The Guardian and do not take into account the rapid, recent spread of OA repositories at universities and OA policies at public funding agencies. Vexen gives no link for the May 2005 article and neither Google nor the Wayback Machine can find a copy online. Vexen’s web page is dated “2005 +” but quotes some 2007 sources.
BTW, Vexen’s top 10 countries on providing OA are (from the top down): Sweden, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Australia, Finland/Denmark (tie), Portugal/Belgium (tie), Germany, USA, and Hungary.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/27/2007 11:10:00 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.
