Richard Wray, Wellcome's £1.25m plan boosts open access, The Guardian, January 29, 2004. More on the Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project, which Wellcome is sponsoring with JISC and the NLM (blogged here yesterday). Excerpt: "With £1.25m of funding, [JISC and Wellcome] have persuaded several publishers, including Reed's rival Wolters Kluwer and privately owned Blackwell's, to hand over the archives to some of their most historically important medical journals. Robert Kiley, head of systems strategy at the Wellcome Library...explained that, as well as placing back issues of journals on the web for everyone to access, several publishers have agreed to make future issues freely available after a set period of time. 'We recognise that publishers still have to sell their journals,' he said. 'But we do not want this to be a static archive.' All research papers published in participating journals should be freely available on the internet within a year of publication, with other journal content freely available within three years."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/29/2004 08:35:00 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.
