Bobby Pickering interviews Arie Jongejan for Information World Review, May 4, 2005. Jongejan was formerly the CEO of Elsevier's Science and Technology Division and is now the CEO at Swets. Excerpt:
IWR: Is open access really a threat, or is it on the decline?
AJ: I'd actually hoped to escape that question with my move. But seriously, I don't know! I wouldn't be surprised that after the initial buzz, the year ahead will show a cool-down. It's like journals, producing the first issue is never a problem, It's the second, third and sixty-seventh that count - and prove the ultimate viability of the idea.
IWR: Could OA ever be an opportunity for Swets?
AJ: Yes, perhaps even more opportunities than in traditional publishing where the intermediary's role involves matching the needs of 60,000 customers with the products of 60,000 publishers. With OA we have millions of authors at thousands of institutes who submit to thousands of publishers, and money flows that are vastly more complex than in the current system. Needless to say, Swets' expertise lies in facilitating such complex flows.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/04/2005 11:14:00 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.
