I just mailed the October 2 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. It has a piece on the Wellcome Trust commitment to open access, how and why to distinguish open access from "Napster for science", the reauthorization of ERIC, upcoming OA-related events in October, and the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/02/2003 01:39:00 PM.
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.