The editorial is a free PDF, but it's locked to prevent users from cutting/pasting. (Why?) So here's a paraphrase in lieu of an excerpt: AJA used to charge for print subscriptions and make read-only PDFs available free of charge on its web site. But starting now, it will offer electronic subscriptions and (except for this editorial) stop offering free PDFs.
Norman hopes this will change will expand AJA's readership. My bet is that it will have the opposite effect.
AJA will still offer OA to museum exhibitions, books, images and data for selected articles, and some bibliographies.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/15/2008 12:50:00 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.
