More about the news item by Tim Lougheed in CMAJ 2004 (12 Oct); 171(8): 838, New online medical journal challenges conventions:
I've posted an eLetter in response, entitled Misunderstanding Open Access.
An excerpt from my response: "An important misunderstanding, not clarified in Tim Lougheed's otherwise-informative news article, is that "Open Access" (OA) is often identified only with "OA Publishing". Instead, there are two complementary OA strategies. ... One strategy involves OA archives or repositories (the "Green Road" to OA), while the other involves OA journals (the "Golden Road" to OA)".
Posted by
Jim Till at 10/13/2004 01:18:00 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.
