Today's issue of The Guardian has an editorial, Publishing Progress, endorsing the Public Library of Science and open access. Excerpt: "Until now the editing, printing and distribution costs have meant that the price of academic journals were controlled by publishing houses. But the internet offers a chance to change all that, and today sees the most high-profile attempt to do so. Being launched is the first journal of a publishing house, the Public Library of Science, which aims to give away research for free....The promise of such new models cannot be underestimated....Commercial publishing houses should not control access to information just to maximise revenues --especially when much of the research has been publicly funded."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/13/2003 08:21:00 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.
