Bobby Pickering, MPs brand scientific publishing 'unsatisfactory', Information World Review, July 20, 2004. Excerpt: "In a report that committee member Paul Farrelly (Labour MP, Newcastle-under-Lyme) described as 'extremely balanced and heavily caveated', the committee recommended that all UK higher education bodies should establish institutional repositories 'on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online'. It also recommends that Research Councils and other government funded bodies should mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all their articles in these institutional repositories. The committee's unanimous view was that the Government should intervene in the market to support and encourage open access publishing, but also to monitor how it develops."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/21/2004 08:25:00 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.
