Open Access? Some Sparks Fly at ALA, a short unsigned news story in the July 6 Library Journal. Excerpt: "On June 27, the day after the New York Times ran a major story on the trend toward open access in STM publishing and the dismay of some librarians toward publisher Elsevier, a panel met at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando --and some sparks flew. 'The whole debate has been turned into David versus Goliath,' declared Arie Jongejan, CEO Elsevier Science & Technology, the Goliath in this market. 'Parties like the Wellcome Trust [a supporter of open access] are not talking about coexistence.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/03/2004 01:17:00 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.
