Scott Allen, News from Boston's medical and scientific community, Boston Globe, May 25, 2004. On the upcoming launch of PLoS Medicine. Excerpt: "Backed by such science heavyweights as Harvard's E.O. Wilson and genetics pioneer James Watson, the San Francisco-based Public Library [of Science] aims to make the latest research available for free to the general public to foster debate, relying on grant money and a fee charged to authors for publicizing their work....Over at the New England Journal of Medicine in Waltham, editors are taking the upstart in stride, saying they plan no special efforts to fend off the challenge. 'We are interested to see the progress of this type of experiment and whether they and others can improve on the current publishing model,' said New England Journal spokeswoman Sandra Jacobs. But the New England Journal, JAMA and Britain's Lancet have drawn one line in the sand: They all turned down PLoS's request for an ad soliciting scientific papers."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/25/2004 12:25:00 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.
