The June issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue has two sections of strong OA interest, (1) "Library Access to Scholarship" on university actions against the big deal and the AAP's much-delayed response to the Sabo bill, and (2) "Library Access Perspective" on the UK inquiry, the BMC response to 11 myths about OA, and the Nature OA debate. In the dispute between OA proponents and opponents, Walt is an independent. But in this issue he finds much more to criticize in recent anti-OA arguments than pro-OA arguments. Excerpt: "My sense in reading [the Nature OA debate, the UK inquiry, and other recent discussions] is that open access publishing must be perturbing the STM oligarchy a lot; otherwise, they wouldn't be so busy spreading misinformation about it."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/18/2004 06:28:00 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.
