FIGARO is a new, EU-funded initiative to improve the speed and efficiency, and reduce the cost, of electronic scholarly publishing. The name is an acronym (Federated Initiative of GAP and Roquade) based on the Dutch Roquade project and the German Academic Publishers (GAP), which combined to form the new initiative. FIGARO will offer tools and services for producing free and affordable scholarly journals. The best short introduction is today's press release, and the best longer one is Leo Waaijers' article on FIGARO's history and mission.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/17/2002 10:32:00 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.
