The career portal academics is a joint initiative of the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the magazine Forschung & Lehre. Each year it awards a prize to the "Junior Scientist of the Year". This year's award, which came with prize money of 2000 Euros, went to Dr. med. Christoph Kleinschnitz of the University Hospital, Wuerzburg. Dr. Kleinschnitz received the award in recognition of the fact that he founded the Journal of Experimental Stroke & Translational Medicine (JESTM), the first ever OA journal worldwide in the field of stroke research. JESTM provides cost-free publication of and access to scientific literature which is of particular benefit to researchers in developing countries....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/28/2008 10:30:00 AM.
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.
