Today marks the launch of the Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) project. AGORA offers tiered pricing to over 400 journals in food, nutrition, agriculture, biology, and environmental science. Access will be free to non-profit schools and institutions in nations where the per capita GNP is less than US $1000. Access will be priced but discounted to those in the next tier. The participating publishers are Blackwell, CABI, Elsevier, Kluwer Academic, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag, and John Wiley. For more details, see the web site or press release.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/14/2003 09:11:00 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.
