Billie Peterson, Tech Talk: Open Access, Library Instruction Round Table News, December 2004, pp. 9-12. In a Q&A column, a reader asks in effect: What is open access and why should I care? Peterson gives an unusually detailed and careful answer with many references for further reading. (PS: The only rub is that this online newsletter prints URLs as textstrings, not active links, so users have to cut and paste them into their browsers.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/26/2005 01:05:00 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.
