Research should be free on web, an unsigned story in today's London Times. Excerpt: "Universities currently access research material through subscriptions to journals. But open-access online publishing would scrap subscription fees, leaving the researchers to pick up the tab for the cost of having their work peer-reviewed. A study commissioned by The Wellcome Trust, which spends more than £400 million a year on research, suggests that open access is the only economically viable option for institutions."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/11/2004 11:34:00 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.
