[T]he Research Quality Framework through its impact measures is likely to increase the pressure to publish in journals that publish full-text electronic versions in databases that international researchers are likely to access. Having a searchable website for the journal is not enough if international researchers are not going to search that website. (At the moment, this means Lexis, WestLaw, Ingenta or one of the other major databases. Perhaps Google Scholar will expand this set.) Journals have to decide how to reconcile this pressure from contributors with the exclusivity provisions in the licensing agreements that the database vendors want and the desirability of openaccess to the products of legal scholarship.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/14/2005 09:49:00 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.
