Bobby Pickering, Elsevier prepares Scopus to rival ISI Web of Science, Vnunet, March 8, 2004. Excerpt: "Elsevier is developing Scopus, an online STM bibliographic database service, due for release in Q4 2004.
It will compete head-on with Thomson ISI's Web of Science....Elsevier is making the site available for free until May in return for intensive feedback on usability....It will offer access to an estimated 80% of peer-reviewed scientific literature, and lay claim to being the world's largest scientific, technical, medical and social science database (although ISI Web of Science, with back files to 1945 and 8,500 journals, will dispute such claims)....Thomson ISI, meanwhile, has upped the stakes in this new power game for market dominance by announcing a collaboration with NEC to create a comprehensive multidisciplinary web citation index....Significantly, the Thomson-NEC service will embrace citations and index links to open access publications --something that Elsevier is unlikely to favour."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/08/2004 09:35:00 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.
