Today's Library Journal briefly summarizes the recent OA initiatives from the RUP: "The Rockefeller University Press (RUP), a not-for-profit scientific publisher, announced that it has completed digitizing the entire backfiles for its three research publications, and will make them freely available to all. RUP, based in New York, publishes The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and The Journal of General Physiology (JGP). RUP's Bruce Lyons said the archives will feature full-text, searchable PDF versions of all articles dating back to volume 1, issue 1 (1955 for the JCB; 1896 for the JEM; and 1918 for the JGP). No subscription fees or surcharges are required to access the files."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/17/2004 10:24:00 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.
