The August issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue contains a lengthy section on Library Access to Scholarship, which covers the OA mandate at Harvard Law School, the OA mandate at the Stanford School of Education, OA library journals, suspicions about Scientific Journals International, the Open Access Directory, the distinction between gratis OA and libre OA, Richard Poynder's inquiry into the costs of OA publishing, and Charles Bailey's 19 years as an internet publisher.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/20/2008 01:52:00 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.