Elsevier has hired Erik Engstrom as the new CEO of its Science & Medical Division. This by itself is not OA news. But David Litterick's account of the hiring in The Telegraph gives more space to open access than to Engstrom. Excerpt: "One of Engstrom's first challenges will be to deal with the potential threat to the Elsevier business of the 'open access' publishing model which some analysts claim could significantly hit margins and which has already weighed on the company's share price....At present [OA journals] account for just 1pc of the entire market but the model is gaining momentum. Springer, the German group, has already made some moves to embrace open access, and it could receive a further boost from a House of Commons science and technology committee report due to be published next week."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/13/2004 09:30:00 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.
