Catherine Zandonella, Open access: Will it spell the end of the medical library?Medicine on the Net, November 11, 2003. (Only the first page is accessible to non-subscribers.) Excerpt from the first page: "As if budget cuts weren’t enough, librarians are buffeted by yearly price hikes for subscriptions to the scientific journals and information services that their physicians and researchers rely on most. Enter a possible savior: open access publishing. Instead of locking up scientific research in subscription-based journals, open access publishers make the articles freely available on the Internet. Anyone with a computer terminal and a phone line is free to print, copy, distribute, and reuse the article as long as they give proper attribution to the work’s authors and publisher. But freedom has its price, and medical librarians could end up being the ones who pay it."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/11/2003 09:50:00 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.
