The June issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue has a long section on Library Access to Scholarship in which Walt covers the NIH policy, the reaction pro and con, and recent contributions to the OA debate, including several pieces of mine. Excerpt: 'That [criticism of the NIH policy] is particularly interesting coming from the author of the DC Principles for Free Access. If those principles mean anything at all, one would think that a 12-month embargo would be well within their parameters. I suppose Frank has helped to clarify the meaning of the DC Principles --that is, apparently, pure hypocrisy....There might be some worthwhile points in [Rudy Baum's May] editorial (not new points, to be sure), but after Baum calls OA advocates socialists, it's hard to take anything in the editorial seriously. It is, in fact, crap like this that makes me nervous about being an OA independent: If the opponents consistently get it this wrong, should I just sign up with the most rigid adherents?...I was charmed by the title of a new OA journal from CSA and the National Biological Information Infrastructure: Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. What better than a journal about sustainability helping to make scholarly access and libraries sustainable?...[Charles Bailey's] DigitalKoans in general is highly recommended....Finally, here’s one you really should download (and copy as needed): What you can do to promote open access...The document includes loads of good ideas; you don’t need to do all of them to help.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/22/2005 09:33:00 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.
