"Hybrid Open Access" won in the category of Best Contract Options, with this citation:
Hybrid Open Access - as a new pricing model for scholarly journals which shows some promise of working for publishers and campuses as an interim solution for the journal pricing crisis.
"The Networked Book" won in the category of Best Effort:
The Institute for the Future of the Book is providing a creative new paradigm for monographic production as books move from print to the screen. This includes integration of multimedia, interviews with authors and inviting readers to comment on draft manuscripts.
I won a special award for Non-Librarian Working for Our Cause:
Peter Suber - for his excellent work in managing the influential SPARC Open Access Forum (blog) and the Open Access Newsletter.
Comments.
I applaud the careful wording of the award for hybrid OA. The hybrid model shows "some promise" as an "interim solution". For my take on its promise, its limits, and why it works better as a stepping stone than as a destination, see my article from September 2006 (esp. the last section, "Strengths and weaknesses of the hybrid model").
The networked book is not just Web 2.0, but also OA --or not just OA, but also Web 2.0. As I wrote back in July, in conjunction with MediaCommons, a related project from the Institute for the Future of the Book: "From a narrow OA point of view, what's most interesting about these projects is the way they take OA for granted and move on to other frontiers, such as turn-around time, peer review, and interactivity. To me, this is the future: OA will be the default and creative energy will focus on how to build on the OA foundation to take full advantage of the networked environment for the purposes of scholarship."
I'm honored by the Readers Choice award. My readers are the best, sending me a steady stream of suggestions, criticism, and support. Thanks to you all. (I feel a bit guilty winning this award when I didn't even know I was in the running. How well am I really covering this scene if I could receive such a pleasant surprise?)
I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't insert a gentle correction to set the record straight. My blog is called Open Access News. The SPARC Open Access Forum is a discussion list I moderate.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/15/2006 10:42:00 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.
