John Cox, Where Are the Industry, the Profession and the Art Headed?Charleston Advisor, January 2004. Good overview of recent publisher mergers and their implications for scholarly publishing. Cox's view of OA are generally skeptical. But he offers this: "One thing I do know is that a number of major commercial publishers are involved in contingency planning if Open Access reaches the 'tipping point' at which the whole industry switches business models. Open access will not lead to the demise of the large commercial publishers. If anything, they might well pick up the idea and run with it while the rest of the community continues its debates. Let us wait and see if Open Access is a substantive development, or little more than another bout of rhetoric that enables us to ignore the very real stresses in scholarly publishing."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/09/2004 10:23:00 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.
