Carole Ebbinghouse has a detailed update in the October 10 issue of Information Today on the class-action lawsuit, derived from the Tasini case that went to the Supreme Court, in which authors are suing publishers and database vendors (including Elsevier, Thomson, and Amazon) for unpermitted electronic publication of their work.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2005 12:23:00 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.
