In 1922, Albert Einstein write a paper on the superconductibity of metals that he never published. After presenting it at a Dutch symposium, he apparently forgot about it and so did everyone else --until this year, when Cornell physicist Neal Ashcroft rediscovered it in a Dutch library. If you were Ashcroft, what you do then? What would Einstein do? That's right, deposit it in arXiv. (The deposited copy is an English translation by Björn Schmekel.) For details, see yesterday's story in LinuxElectrons.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/30/2005 01:06:00 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.
