Bobby Pickering, Medical Journals to get open access rival, Information World Review, May 22, 2004. On PLoS Medicine, to launch later this fall. Excerpt: "The PLoS launched its first open access journal, PLoS Biology, last October to some critical acclaim. Nobel prize winner Joseph Goldstein --a member of the editorial board of the new journal-- said that the need for making medical research freely available was even more pressing than for biological research. Goldstein said: 'The National Institutes of Health in the US alone spends over $28 billion on biomedical research. Everyone in the country, and around the world, should have access to the results of those studies.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/22/2004 12:52:00 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.
