Lance Fortnow, Page Charges, My Computational Complexity Web Log, May 8, 2004. Fortnow notes that both the ACM and SIAM, small scientific societies, have begun levying page charges for articles published in their journals. He expresses his disagreement, saying that the fees could be spent otherwise, for example paying a graduate student's way to a meeting. Fortnow concludes: "We have problems in our field with expensive for-profit journals and papers that never appear in refereed journals at all. We need to encourage authors to send their articles to journals run by the non-profit societies. We should not then send them a bill for doing the right thing."
Posted by
Garrett at 5/10/2004 03:40:00 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.
