Nature respects preprint servers, Nature 434, 257 (17 March 2005.) (Access restricted to subscribers.) A brief editorial argues that Nature has been unfairly maligned with regard to authors depositing their papers in preprint archives, and states: "if scientists wish to display drafts of their research papers on an established preprint server before or during submission to Nature or any Nature journal, that's fine by us." The six-month embargo on postprint self-archiving is not mentioned, however.
Posted by
Garrett at 3/16/2005 03:04:00 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.
