In March, Robert Centor published an article in BMC's Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Yesterday he blogged a letter he received from BMC giving him a "traffic report" on how often his article had been downloaded, comparing his download rate to the BMC average, and showing him where he can continue to monitor traffic. His conclusion:
This is my first experience with open access publishing and it is an excellent experience. Hopefully, the medical literature will move rapidly towards this model.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2006 10:22:00 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.
