[A]nyone who read this or this about Nature's open peer review trial can rest assured that it's NOT true. We haven't made a decision about this yet. There's been a recent uptick in coverage of our trial following an article (subscribers only) in the 14 September issue of the Wall Street Journal. Some others then reported this as a new initiative even though it's now been going for almost four months. Matt Whipp went further and put it in the future tense, which Peter Suber seems to [have] interpreted as a scoop rather than a mistake.
PS: Thanks, Timo. I stand corrected.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/19/2006 11:40:00 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.
