Clive Cookson, Call for shake-up in way scientific journals provided, Financial Times, July 20, 2004. Excerpt: "Researchers and publishers should be encouraged by the government to make a fundamental change in the way scientific journals are provided, the Commons science committee says, so that anyone with a computer can have free, open access to research findings....Ian Gibson, chairman, said the committee decided to investigate scientific publishing because the government - and many scientists - did not take the 'crisis' in university libraries and the provision of scientific information seriously enough."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/20/2004 10:00:00 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.
