HighWire Press, the world's premier scholarly online hosting service, reached a significant milestone this week with the posting of the five millionth article on its e-Publishing platform. ...
By individual publisher policy, over 2 million of those 5 million articles are available online to readers without subscription barriers. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 12/03/2008 03:56:00 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.