I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a close look at two publisher worries about self-archiving --that it will erase their brand and that it will create copies whose download counts they can no longer monitor. I discuss a good solution to the first and a bad solution to the second.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/02/2005 02:33:00 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.
