A press release announces Duke University Press's foray into scientific publishing, mentioning that the publisher will add two science-oriented journals per year over a period of five years. Duke says they were encouraged by SPARC's Rick Johnson and their university librarian, David Ferriero, to undertake this venture, and that they and others "can play a key role in moving scientific and medical publishing back into the nonprofit sector, and thus help to counter the trend that has allowed certain large commercial publishers near-monopolistic control of the journals market, to the fiscal detriment of academic institutions.” (Source: Issues in Scholarly Communication - Georgia State University Library)
Posted by
Garrett at 8/24/2004 02:25:00 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.
