Carol Tenopir, Open Access Alternatives, Library Journal, July 15, 2004. Tenopir argues that and pros and cons of OA depend on how OA is defined. Excerpt: "Journal publishing and payment models are in flux. Author payments, membership fees, institutional commitments to repository development, and self-archiving in e-print servers or other web sites coexist with lease agreements and traditional subscriptions. No one answer is a panacea, capable of solving library budget woes, access to high-quality literature, and collection development issues. But neither is it time to throw out any of the options as we work to find the best models for libraries and scholarship." (PS: I should have blogged this article last month. Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr., for discovering that I hadn't.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/25/2004 01:04:00 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.
