Today’s Times (London) newspaper carries two short reports on open access publishing by Nigel Hawkes, the paper’s Health Editor. The first covers the Cell Press dispute, and refers to a report by the French Bank BNP Paribas which estimates the income from STM journals as $8bn per annum. The second outlines the academic publishing process. It claims that for many years journal publishing was a cottage industry, until 'the late Robert Maxwell proved with Pergamon Press that scientific publishing could be lucrative'.
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Health Perspectives at 11/10/2003 04:04:00 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.
