I just mailed the October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue summarizes the state of OA legislation in the just-ended session of Congress and takes a close look at the indirect ways in which access might affect quality. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the university administrators supporting and opposing FRPAA, the continued expansion of the hybrid journal model, an NIH-publisher agreement that hurts researchers, a new policy at the NEH (not NIH) to favor OA projects, and a statement by a Vice President of the Association of American Publishers that it's in the national interest to limit access to publicly-funded research to those who can afford to pay.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/02/2006 02:52:00 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.
