Reuters has a story today on Springer's program to digitize its back run for priced online access. Excerpt: "Chief Executive Deerk Hank told Reuters in an interview at the Frankfurt Book Fair that he was spending $18 million to produce online versions of Springer’s journals, which include articles by Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity. Making content available online is a key battleground among scientific publishers including market leader Reed Elsevier, No. 2 Springer, and Wolters Kluwer as the Internet and tightening library budgets transform the industry....'It's not a highly profitable project, but we are proud that we are doing it,' Hank said about the digital back issues....Springer is now making one million digital pages a day...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/07/2004 09:33:00 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.
