Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillan (parent company of Nature), has a note on his blog today urging his readers to follow the OA debate, especially through the comments on Declan Butler's June article on PLoS.
PS: This is a closer to a neutral recommendation than his post in June about the same Nature article in which he misinterpreted the article's conclusions and seriously suggested that OA journals more than non-OA journals lead to "protection of the status quo."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/07/2006 12:31:00 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.
