The July issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. Walt asked his CITES Alerts readers for library tech trends worth noting. OA appeared twice on the resulting list: "'Blogging is catching on' --including multicontributor topical blogs such as STLQ and Open Access News....Open Access publishing and other change in scholarly communication, including online repositories, LOCKSS, etc. [are catching on]. The window may be open for a massive shift."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2004 09:19:00 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.
