Carol Ebbinghouse, Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge, March 2, 2005. An unusually long and detailed exploration of the OA landscape and its controversies. Lots of links, lots of questions, and no single thesis for an easy summary. An especially good point: 'Ultimately, the players in the open access war include all of us, all consumers of knowledge, whether researchers working in a university library or science lab and possibly accessing "proprietary information" through a library contract; attorneys using individual Lexis or Westlaw contracts; businesspeople with corporate contracts; or cancer researchers tapping grant-funded content in research databases from around the world.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/02/2005 08:57:00 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.
