Richard Wray, MPs back free access to research results, The Guardian, July 20, 2004. Excerpt: "The 118-page report stops short of fully endorsing the open access publishing movement, where authors are charged for their research to be made freely available to everyone on the web, but 'strongly supports' further experimentation with this new business model....But advocates of open access warmly welcomed the report as heralding a dramatic change in the way scientific research is disseminated. 'The report reinforces our view that the current system of publishing the results of scientific research is failing both science and the public at large,' said Dr Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity." (PS: Like other reporters covering this story, Wray confuses OA through journals with OA itself. The report fully endorses OA through repositories and only stops short of a full endorsement for OA through journals.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/20/2004 09:54:00 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.
