Elsevier has submitted written testimony to the committee. Breathtaking. I'm at a conference and don't have time to write a reply. But it asserts that UK academics already have adequate access (but only because JISC paid dearly for it), that OA journals don't perform peer review or don't do it well (same old, same old), that the OA journal business model is untested and unsustainable (despite being more viable than the Elsevier model, which the U of California called "incontrovertibly unsustainable"), and more. (Thanks to Gary Price.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/13/2004 02:22:00 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.
