Christine Tsai, Postprints Service Allows the Public Free Access to UC Scholarly, New University, March 14, 2005. (Yes, there is a word missing from the title.) Excerpt: 'The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication recently launched its eScholarship postprints service, allowing the public free access to peer-reviewed articles written by UC faculty. Catherine Candee, director of publishing and strategic initiatives at the OSC, explained three ways that the OSC attempts to improve and change the system of scholarly communication. "One way is by working with faculty to try to implement and change the way copyright is managed," Candee said. "The second way is to work with the library to make informed purchases. The third is to provide alternative publishing platforms and services." The postprints service is an addition to the already existing eScholarship repository launched in 2002, which contains working papers, technical papers, professional reports, journals and monographs. Candee built and developed the repository and the postprints service in hopes that it will help fulfill the mission of the OSC. "The postprints service is a nice concentration on those aims in that there is an immediate aim of encouraging scholars to have direct control over their scholarly output," Candee said. "They're reclaiming it and we’re taking content that is generally unavailable to most of the world and making it widely available."...According to Candee, the cost of developing the postprints service was miniscule compared to publishing fees...."We think that the university is a source of knowledge that should be shared with society and by unfettering the access to all this, it will lead to a more vibrant, intellectual community and a more vibrant state for the society and economy," Candee said.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/14/2005 08:28:00 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.
