The new issue of Information Services and Use (vol. 27, no. 4, 2007) is now online. The issue is devoted to presentations from last year's Academic Publishing in Europe conference(Berlin, January 23-24, 2007). The articles are TA, and in most cases, not even abstracts are free online, at least so far. Here are the OA-related articles:
Isabella Meinecke, University presses and open access. Abstract: The situation of academic publishing is changing. Rises in prices, decreasing libraries' budgets, increasing academic output, and new possibilities of publishing in the digital age correspond to the need of new strategies in publishing. In Germany, recently founded university presses are considered as one response to the challenge. Associated with academic libraries, they support open access publishing and offer print on demand. The workshop was about to explore the role of university presses and open access in present and future academic publishing.
Update. The full-texts of all the articles in this issue are free online in a single large PDF. (Thanks to Gavin Baker.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/27/2007 12:06:00 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.
