Open Access, Salt Lake Tribune, September 5, 2005. An unsigned news story. Excerpt:
The University of Utah is working to give the public access to new research, often taxpayer-funded, without hefty subscription costs. [1] The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences and J. Willard Marriott Libraries are building a free Internet repository for U. studies. Because many publishers have relaxed copyright laws, researchers also can store their final manuscripts in the electronic archive. [2] The libraries have purchased memberships in open access journals, to encourage U. researchers to publish in them. [3] The Eccles Library encourages [NIH-funded] faculty to submit electronic versions of their final manuscripts to PubMed Central, published by the National Library of Medicine, which releases research after publication.
(PS: On the first of these: It's not in the power of publishers to relax copyright laws. For preprint archiving, no publisher cooperation is required. For postprint archiving, publishers have relaxed their demands in the copyright transfer agreement.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/06/2005 07:43:00 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.
