I just mailed the August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at two species of free online access and proposes some vocabulary to help us talk about them unambiguously. The round-up section briefly notes 115 OA developments from July.
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.
