I just mailed the July issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at OA and the variety of digitization projects. How far can we defend the principle that the results of publicly-funded digitization projects should be OA? What if the public funds are supplemented by private funds? What if the works to be digitized are under copyright? What if the project wants to provide gratis rather than libre OA?
The round-up section briefly notes 166 OA developments from June.
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.
