From a JISC press release (January 24, 2005): 'In a move to open-up access to scientific research, an initiative announced today will provide free access to the UK's biggest archive of physics research, saving libraries at UK universities £30,000 each. A special agreement, announced today by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Institute of Physics (IoP), will make the contents of the IoP's digital journal archive between 1874 and 1998 permanently accessible to higher and further education institutions in the UK. The deal will have a major impact on physics education and research in this country by making some of the most important discoveries of the last 130 years freely available for the first time. The archive includes over 110,000 articles and over 1.5 million pages of physics research including papers by Sir John Fleming, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Lord Rayleigh and Sir Edward Appleton.'
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.
