In the April 11 issue of The Daily Targum, the student newspaper of Rutgers University, there is a column by Sam Liao that apparently discusses faculty and library unhappiness with high journal prices. In the April 13 issue there is apparently a letter to the editor from Jim Niessen pointing out that many new journals are OA and that two are edited and published at Rutgers. I'd give you more details, and working links, but The Daily Targum not only requires registration to read the stories, but automatically gives registrants an email subscription to the paper. Sorry, Targum. It's not worth it.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/13/2005 10:58:00 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.
