Medscape ran a poll for one week in late October asking for an up-or-down vote on the NIH OA proposal. Of 910 respondents, an overwhelming 88% voted in favor of the proposal. A slightly greater proportion of nurses favored the proposal (92%) than physicians (88%). The results are in line with a similar poll conducted in January showing Medscape readers favored open-access publishing by 95%.
Posted by
Jason at 11/22/2004 01:45:00 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.
