Scott Carlson, Cornell Tries a New Publishing Model: Scholarship on Demand, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 5, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "Cornell University has started a publishing venture that will provide scholarly publications online free, offering readers the option to pay for a printed copy. Officials at Cornell hope that the publishing model will be one that other colleges will adopt, reducing their dependence on costly journals and trimming the need for storage space. The project, called the Internet-First University Press, is one of the first to utilize DSpace, a free software tool designed by programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to archive scholarly works....One of the press's main challenges, Mr. Cooke says, is convincing faculty members that the Internet model of publishing is just as valuable as publishing in established journals. All of the professors who have signed on so far are tenured, Mr. Cooke says, adding that he used his status as a former dean of the faculty to win them over."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/01/2004 10:12:00 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.
