Two brief pieces in the Times Higher Education Supplement, no.1639, 8 (May 7, 2004), provide contrasting views of open access. (Restricted to subscribers.) The Wellcome Trust's Mark Walport, in "Everyone's a Winner," reaffirms his organization's support of OA, touts their study which demonstrates its cost-effectiveness, and argues that fears of breakdown in quality and peer review "are unfounded." Arie Jongejan of Elsevier, on the other hand, is quoted in "Publishers Resist Revolution" as saying that OA journals "should come with health warnings about integrity, quality and access." Further concerns aired include prevalence of funding bodies in OA publishing at the expense of less well-supported researchers, and society publishers' belief that the author fees wouldn't even come close to sustaining the quality associated with their publications. (Source: Tom Roper's Weblog)
Posted by
Garrett at 5/14/2004 04:24:00 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.
