Rick Anderson, Open access in the real world: Confronting economic and legal reality, C&RL News, April 2004. Excerpt: "Any proposal that is built on the premise that information is inherently free, or that online publication can be undertaken without significant cost, will not work in the real world because both of those premises are demonstrably incorrect." (Thanks to Gary Price.) (PS: No OA proponent argues that OA is costless. OA proponents have always acknowledged that peer-reviewed research literature has costs, and merely argue that there are better ways to recover those costs than by charging for access.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/07/2004 02:57:00 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.
