Mark Chillingworth, Blackwell opens its arms to OA, Information World Review, March 7, 2005. Excerpt: 'Society publishers Blackwell Publishing has entered the Open Access (OA) fray with the launch of Online Open, an author pays model. Blackwell has adopted an author choice and payment scheme similar to Springer Open Choice, announced last year...."Publishing journals online is still in its infancy and we are likely to see a range of business models emerge over the next 10 years," said Blackwell's Gordon Tibbitts, of the mixed economy that is emerging in journal publishing. The Oxford based publisher will closely monitor the results of the experiment and share the results with the societies it publishes for. "Blackwell developed this service so that those authors with the appropriate funding and who want to make their articles available through open access don't need to find alternative publications for their work," said Bob Campbell, Blackwell Publishing President.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/07/2005 10:46:00 AM.
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.
