Emerald has called for nominations for its 2004 Research Fund Awards. The Fund will "consider proposals...which are based on the objective of increasing the effectiveness of the scholarly knowledge creation and transmission process." (PS: This is less OA-friendly than it looks, and more like mitigation than generosity. The Fund is based on Emerald's copyright revenue and the awards are limited to scholars who have transferred a copyright to Emerald --i.e. it's based on the profits from raising access barriers and limited to authors who have consented. Here are three better ways to give back copyright revenue in order to support the effectiveness of knowledge creation and transmission: convert Emerald journals to open-access, let authors retain copyright, or permit them to deposit their Emerald postprints in OAI-compliant archives.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2003 10:12:00 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.
