Fred Locklear has a paragraph on the launch in his column, Science Sunday, in the October 12 issue of Ars Technica. He too seems to have absorbed misinformation that PLoS will somehow abandon or compromise peer review: "Let's hope that PLoS Biology can walk the fine line between expediency and solid peer-review...." (PS: He might have meant that the journal should embrace both expediency and peer review, even though his expression, as ordinarily understood, means that it should avoid both.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/12/2003 09:16:00 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.
