Kerry Cupit, an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University, wrote an article about the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars, posted it to his web site, and soon discovered that its download count jumped by 3,000% in one day (20 hits to 600). The change came when NASA linked to his page from its page on the Melas Chasma. For details, see the Simon Fraser press release (November 17). (Thanks to Heather Morrison.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/20/2005 03:45:00 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.
