E-Conserv@tion is a new free online peer-reviewed OA journal. It calls itself OA, but it requires users to register, and click their agreement with the CC-BY-NC-ND licensing terms, before they are allowed to read any articles. Even then, you cannot download individual articles but only an entire issue in a single PDF.
The inaugural issue (October 2007) is now online and includes an article on OA, The Open Access Concept (pp. 14-19). I'd link to it but the journal doesn't support deep links to individual articles. The article presents the results of a survey of attitudes toward OA among conservators. I'd post an excerpt here, but I just ran into one more frustrating limitation: cutting/pasting a paragraph of readable text creates an unreadable mess full of random spaces.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/14/2007 11:58:00 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.
