Barbara Meredith, "PSP Outreach Campaign Enters New Phase", Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin, Fall 2003, pp. 1-2. On the AAP-PSP campaign "to reaffirm the value of traditional fee-subscription publishing in the face of an aggressive media blitz by some supporters of the recently announced [journal from the] Public Library of Science." (PS: The article summarizes the campaign strategy, which doesn't justify fees so much as enumerate the valuable services performed by journals. But both sides agree that journals perform valuable services, including peer review. To change minds, the campaign will have to address the arguments made by OA proponents --that some journal services are more essential than others, that they cost less than most journals charge for them, and that there are better ways to cover the costs of the essential services than by charging fees and erecting access barriers.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2003 11:10:00 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.
