Martin C. Raff et al, Changing Scientific Publishing, Science 305(5686), 945-946 (13 August 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) In a reply to a letter by Wang et al (see OAN posting from 3/26/04) which argued for making the web the primary means of publication and dissemination of scientific literature and suggested that this might be enhanced by the inclusion of reviewer's comments and other editorial matter, Raff and colleagues point out that in the latter case such a service exists in the Faculty of 1000, which highlights and provides commentary on recent papers of interest in a variety of biomedical topics. (It is a subscription-based service, all the same.) As for web-focused publishing, they point to BioMedCentral and urge Wang and others to work to enhance already existing tools.
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Garrett at 8/12/2004 04:15:00 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.
