Bobby Pickering, Wellcome says OA will reduce publishing costs, Information World Review, May 12, 2004. Excerpt: "The Wellcome Trust has launched an all-out attack on commercial STM publishing in a new report that claims that open access will wipe as much as 30% off the publishing costs of scientific articles....Dr Mark Walport, director of the trust, said: 'As a research funder we have to question whether it is right that we, and others, are in the position of having to pay to read the results of the research we fund.'...Walport said the main aim of the report was to start a dialogue with learned societies to encourage them to embrace OA. 'It's time for serious discussion, particularly with the learned societies which, as the report makes clear, should have nothing to fear from a new publishing model.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/12/2004 09:38:00 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.
