A recent Outsell briefing by Chuck Richard, Content Vendor Best Practices: Busting up Fee vs. Free, February 13, 2004, argues that "fee versus free" is a false dichotomy that distorts the practice of many healthy publishers and, if believed, could distort their strategic thinking as well. From the free online abstract: "For commercial content vendors, the Briefing provides clear and concrete examples to show that there is indeed a huge market for content that includes both for-pay and blended models." I haven't read the report itself (it costs $895) but the TOC shows that it includes a section on STM publishers.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/08/2004 10:25:00 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.
