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Monday, December 10, 2007

Timeline updated

For most of 2007, I'm sorry to say, my Timeline of the Open Access Movement has been out of date.  I've been trapped in a vicious circle:  the more new developments there are, the more preoccupied I am in writing about them for OAN and SOAN, and the less time I have for logging the most important items to the timeline.  But I'm happy to say that just brought it up to the present (the end of November). 

  • As usual, I tried to limit my entries to the most important events.  But 2007 was chock-full of important OA events, more than any previous year.  Despite this volume, however, I estimate that the timeline mentions only about 1% of the OA developments I blogged during 2007.  It includes about one-tenth of the items from my monthly SOAN round-up, and the monthly round-up in turn includes about one-tenth of the items I blogged.
  • As usual, I welcome additions and corrections.
  • As usual, I can't read it without being overwhelmed by the impression that OA is putting down roots everywhere and making irreversible progress.  My review of OA in 2007 will come out in the January issue of SOAN.