Lou Pray, The NIH open-access proposal, LANL Research Library Newsletter, November 2004. An overview of the plan, borrowing from my FAQ. Excerpt: "The LANL Research Library is supportive of the Open Access movement and wants to know what LANL scientists think. Could this work?...We welcome your opinions on this controversial topic." (PS: I wish the note had relied on my FAQ even more. Currently the note gives the impression that the NIH is requiring publication in "essentially author-funded journals" and will do some, but not all, of the peer review. Both are untrue. The plan is about OA archiving through PubMed Central, not OA journals. It leaves authors free to publish in the journals of their choice. NIH will not do any of the peer review; it will simply host copies of articles published by peer-reviewed journals.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/09/2004 01:49:00 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.
