Dick Kaser and Marydee Ojala, Open Access Forum: Many Roads to Open Access, Information Today, January 3, 2005. Not even an abstract is free online, at least so far. (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
Update. I just got access to the text, thanks to Marydee Ojala and Stevan Harnad. Excerpt: 'Two parallel Open Access Forums, one at Internet Librarian International in London, U.K., in October 2004, and the second at Internet Librarian in Monterey, Calif., in November 2004, showcased the issues involved in open access....Both Forums featured an interview with OA advocate Stevan Harnad, professor of cognitive science at the University of Southampton....As Harnad explains it, open access is toll-free online access to the full text of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. He notes that of the 24,000 such journals, 23,000 of them hold to the traditional subscription-based model. That’s the toll road. The green road is self-archiving. Harnad insists that self-archiving moves the costs from the user's institution to the author's institution. He also stresses that it should be the author's institution, not the author, paying those costs. The gold road is open access journals, such as those from BioMedCentral and the Public Library of Science.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/03/2005 03:32:00 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.
