The November issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue contains a length section on Library Access to Scholarship, covering the resurgence of PRISM-style anti-OA lobbying, the Conyers bill to overturn the NIH policy, and the short-lived attempt by the American Psychological Association to charge authors for compliance with the NIH policy. In the second half of the section, goes back to 2006 to review some older cases of "opposition and extremes". Excerpt:
...The enemies of open access have large budgets, are well organized, and have shown little reluctance to bend the truth or repeat discredited statements. And they don’t give up.
Enemies? Isn’t that a strong word? Well, what else would you call PRISM, to take one example? And what else would you call the forces behind September’s House hearings on the NIH policy? ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/14/2008 02:11:00 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.
