Kendra Mayfield, College Archives 'Dig' Deeper, Wired News, August 3. On institutional eprint archives at MIT, University of California, Ohio State, and CalTech, as well as the more subject-oriented archives arXiv and CogPrints. Mayfield even links to eprints software and the Open Archives Initiative. Mayfield: "These archives may provide more efficient, open access to research than costly commercial journals, which scholars often rely upon to publish their work and establish prestige." Quoting MIT librarian MacKenzie Smith: "We see this kind of system as as a kind of public good." Quoting Rick Johnson of SPARC: "Today, institutions are paying unconscionably high prices to buy access to the research they support that is published in profitable commercially published journals. Institutional repositories can stimulate emergence of new publishing models that are more efficient and effective in serving academe."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/03/2002 10:50:00 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.
