Catherine Brahic, UK hears open access evidence, TheScientist, March 10, 2004. Excerpt: " 'Unless we see a big change in the way that research is funded, open access isn't sustainable in any format other than as an experiment,' Julia King, of the UK Institute of Physics, told the Commons Science and Technology Select Committee. The institute publishes the New Journal of Physics, an open access 'experiment.' Harold Varmus, of the US-based open access group Public Library of Science, and Vitek Tracz, from for-profit open access publisher BioMedCentral (partner of The Scientist), underlined the need for transform the system. They argued, however, that open access was not a choice but an imperative....[Stevan] Harnad hoped that the next phase of the investigation [in April and May] will focus more on [self-archiving]: 'Here, I hope, the other road to open access will be given some of its due.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/10/2004 03:48:00 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.
