I just mailed the August issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at the first articles to be released online as a result of the NIH public-access policy and the signs that both houses of Congress want to see results from the policy. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the release of Celera Genomics data into the public domain, the new publishing guides from OSI and SPARC, two new OA journals from PLoS, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft study of author attitudes toward OA, and the continuing news and comment on the RCUK draft OA policy.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/02/2005 11:05:00 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.
