I just mailed the January issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue reviews open access developments in 2005, offers some predictions for 2006, and takes a close look at the CURES Act. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the Ukrainian resolution to make OA a national priority, the new CERN task force on OA, the NeuroCommons initiative from Science Commons, new evidence of the OA impact advantage in 10 fields, the Wellcome Trust OA agreement with three publishers, and December developments on OA policy in the UK.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/02/2006 11:08:00 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.
