T. Scott Plutchak has written some notes on the Allen Press Seminar (Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005), which was devoted to OA this year. Excerpt from his notes: 'The most interesting day was the Allen Press Seminar in DC, primarily because of the nature of the audience. I heard Guy say that there were over 150 registrants, and I suspect less than half a dozen of them were librarians....Not unexpectedly, there was a certain amount of hostility from this audience to the NIH plan -- Betsy handled it extremely well. But there was also much more support for open access options among the group than I might have expected. It is very clear that even those publishers who wish they'd never heard the phrase were seeing the writing on the wall and looking harder at different economic models than they would have if they hadn't been pushed in that direction.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/21/2005 02:24:00 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.
