A short, unsigned note in yesterday's Mercury News describes the launch of PLoS Biology. Two new details: the site got over 3 million hits in the first two days, and the now-famous article by Carmena et al. on the monkey brain and robotic arm was downloaded 60,000 times in the first three days.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2003 11:56:00 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.
