"The research was reported in the second issue of PLoS Biology, which is interesting in another way. This new journal is open access. No expensive subscriptions or licenses are required. Just log on and read up. The research results --the thoughts-- are free. That seems to fit about right." From an editorial in yesterday's USA Today, after summmarizing the already-famous article (by Carmena et al.) on a monkey trained to control a robot arm by thought or neural impulses alone.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/15/2003 02:58:00 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.
