David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands, Open Access Publishing: The Evidence from the Authors. No abstract. Here's an excerpt from the conclusion (thanks to Charles Bailey): 'Perhaps the biggest finding to emerge from the study is the general ignorance of open access publishing on the part of relatively senior scholarly authors, those appearing as leading author in an article published in ISI ranked journal. Currently it would not appear that authors are in a position to influence a debate at which they are at the heart of. We shall be watching to see with interest whether our new survey --due to be reported on in April 2005, will show whether things have changed over the past year. The second most interesting finding was the diversity of opinion and practice amongst authors, with real differences emerging between authors of different disciplines, countries and ages, and the dangers of generalizing the data.'
Mia Liza Lustria and Donald Case, The SPARC Initiative: A Survey of Participants and Features Analysis of Their Journals. Abstract: 'The Scholarly Publishing and Resources Coalition (SPARC) endorses a number of electronic journals in several disciplines. This web-based survey of SPARC partners, combined with a features analysis of their journals, describes the participants, their journals, motives for joining SPARC, perceived benefits of electronic journals, and other data. Recent literature on electronic publication is also reviewed.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/24/2005 11:06:00 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.
