An important research project on OA, Open Access Communication for Science (OACS), now has a web site. The project is lead by Bo-Christer Björk of the Swedish school
of Economics and Business Administration (HANKEN) and funded by the Academy of Finland. OACS focuses on three topics: (1) "Economics of the scientific publishing life-cycle process", (2) "Changing behaviour of scientists in seeking information", and (3) "New copyright arrangements taking into account open access publishing". The nine researchers associated with the project already have an impressive list of publications on OA and scholarly communication behind them.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/14/2004 08:02:00 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.
