Thomas Walker, Two Routes to Open Access. Powerpoint slides for a talk given at the American Library Association conference, June 26, 2004. Explanatory notes are included in .pdf. Walker's talk recaps how the Florida Entomological Society and the Entomological Society of America moved towards open access publishing; the former made all its papers freely available on the web and only recently instituted author charges, while the latter provided open access by the article through author payments. Neither saw a precipitous decline in subscriptions, and have (as Peter Suber points out) come up with a sustainable business models that recover costs. Walker maintains a website, Web Access to Traditionally Published Journals, which lists a number of useful references about open access, with a section particular to the entomological societies. (Source: the (sci-tech) Library Question)
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Garrett at 7/01/2004 11:40:00 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.
