Challenge and Change: Scholarly Communication and the UC Community, UC, December 18, 2003. A report from the UC Scholarly Communication Seminars held in October and November, 2003. The report consists more of questions than answers, but the questions are good ones. Excerpt: "what incentives could encourage and support faculty experimentation with new means of scholarly publishing? What incentives, for example, would encourage journal authors and/or editors to favor low-cost or even open-access publishing venues over high-cost commercial ones? What incentives would encourage faculty to consider monograph publications that are delivered primarily in electronic form though potentially with some print-based analogs?...
We have an established infrastructure that supports no-cost access to working papers are produced by UC faculty. The so-called eScholarship program manages (and distinguishes carefully between) both peer reviewed as well as non-peer reviewed materials. It attracts papers from over 100 UC ORUs and materials are heavily used. How can we increase the rate and breadth of adoption of this infrastructure? How can we develop it to provide a home for post-prints (that is, an open-access venue for peer reviewed journal articles that are also available from for-fee publishers)? How can we develop it to provide a home for papers presented to UC-based conferences and seminars?" (Thanks to CDLINFO.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/22/2004 08:51:00 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.
