I just mailed the October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at the OA policy from the Wellcome Trust, which took effect yesterday, and the Authors Guild lawsuit against the Google Library project. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the new OECD report on scientific publishing, the CODATA proposal for a Global Information Commons for Science, Stevan Harnad's calculation of the monetary cost of lost citation impact, the new AZoM OA journal with a patented business model, the two Salvador declarations, and the continuing news and comment on the draft OA policy from RCUK.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/02/2005 12:07:00 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.
