Icthes World Care, a UK-based non-profit publisher of OA journals targeted at developing countries, is closing, according to a notice on its Web site dated January 2009:
Icthes World Care is being wound up as a charity and will be closed down in the next few months.
Our final journals will be published shortly ...
Back issues will be available on our Web site until we close.
...I have checked the Internet Archive, and in case we should be complacent about that as a system of preservation, found only 1 issue out of 18 issues from 4 titles had actually been gathered there.
I see from Suncat that these titles are variously held by [the British Library], Cambridge, Oxford and [National Library of Scotland], so I guess they are regarded as serious titles. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 3/27/2009 04:16:00 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.
