Stevan Harnad, The Golden and Green Roads to Open Access, AmSci Open Access Forum, November 14, 2003. A preprint responding to Pritpal Tamber, Fiona Godlee, Peter Newmark's recent article on open access in The Lancet. Excerpt: "It is certainly true, as the authors of the Lancet article state, that open-access self-archiving 'is not an alternative to the current subscription-based publishing model.' But let us not forget that this is not the "alternative-to-the-current-subscription-based-model" initiative. It is the *open-access* initiative! And the golden road (with the changes in the subscription model that it requires) is just one of the two roads leading to it (and not the fastest or surest)."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/13/2003 07:31:00 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.
