Brian Simboli, The Subscription Overlay: An Alternative Publishing Model. A web page summarizing a model that Brian has been describing and defending in recent messages to SOAF and other listservs. Excerpt: 'The idea is that institutions may be willing to pay for such enhanced features [to an otherwise OA journal] as: additional content (including e.g. news, or links to online reference resources); citing/cited reference capabilities of the kind discussed here; email alerting services; searchable abstracting and indexing; direct linkages to citation management software; analyze capabilities; graphical displays of conceptual relationships between articles; cross-reference linking; and "mark and email" (or print) capabilities. (While it does not necessarily have all these features, one is reminded here of the Science Direct interface.) Objections to the model have been posed here. A response is offered here.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/09/2005 04:54:00 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.
