Martin Flanagan, FTSE finishes week on downbeat note, Business.Scotsman.com, December 13, 2003. Excerpt: "British-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier fell 2.3 per cent or 10.5p to 449p after a House of Commons committee said that it would hold hearings on the price and availability of scientific journals. The committee will specifically look into the emergence of free, open-access publications, which could challenge Reed’s scientific and legal journals."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/13/2003 06:39:00 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.
