Just as journals should do everything possible to get content, they should do everything possible to facilitate distribution of that content. This includes encouraging authors to post their articles on ssrn and bepress [OA repositories] before publication. I've heard some journals don't want to let authors post their articles on the web before the articles are published --or even after they're published. To use a colloquial term, that's nuts. Journals need to get scholarship into the hands (or before the eyes) of readers....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2007 12:11:00 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.