Klaus Graf has written an open letter (in German) to the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen protesting the terms of its standard publishing contract that require authors to give up copyright and the hope of providing OA to their own work. He makes good use of the Max Planck Society advice: authors should "Take care when signing future contracts with publishers! For future submissions to commercial or not-for-profit publishers, please be aware that signing an exclusive license or a full Copyright Transfer Agreement might narrow any further personal or scientific use."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2005 11:47:00 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.
