Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Report of the CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences, CIC, December 2, 2003. While the report is dated December 2003, it was released in February 2004. The CIC consists of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago. In this analysis of scholarly communication, the focus is on books and gives only secondary attention journals, e.g. as rising journal costs lead libraries to cut into their book budgets. Two speakers, John Unsworth (p. 6) and Paul Courant (p. 7), called for free online access, apparently to books as well as journals. (PS: Thanks to Colin Steele.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/05/2004 11:08:00 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.
