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...The world spends over $2 trillion of tax-payer money on research & development according to the OECD. This public funding results in over 2.5 million scholarly publications....90% of this knowledge is however captured, owned and locked up by subscription-based publishing models. Even researchers must buy access to read their own articles. Researchers are forbidden from disseminating their research discoveries because they no longer own the copy rights to their articles (and hence the access to the results)....
With over 2.5 million articles p.a. locked up in over 24'000 journals, there is no University in the world that can afford the $10's of millions in annual subscription fees. What fraction can a university in a developing country subscribe to? What access do you, as a layperson (that paid for this research), have? ...
Frontiers believes that sharing knowledge is an obligation.
Comment. In the fall of 2007, the Frontiers Research Foundation launched an OA journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience. At the time it was definitely OA and today it's less clear. All the articles I tested in the current issue are gratis OA. But the journal charges subscriptions, which cost €149 for individuals and €199 for institutions. If the full text is OA and the subscriptions are only for a print edition, then the subscription page doesn't say so. For more background on the journal and its OA policy at the time of launch, see my blog post from October 2007.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/06/2009 12:11:00 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.
