In the October 1 issue of Library Journal, Carol Tenopir has an excellent overview of the UKSG and Charleston annual conferences on serials and access issues. One highlight is her summary of the talk by Derk Haank (Elsevier CEO) at the UKSG meeting. Haank admits that price increases have led to so many cancellations that Elsevier has lost "the corporate library market and the teaching college market". But he believes that electronic journals, without price reductions, somehow give Elsevier "a unique chance to win them back."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/07/2002 02:06:00 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.
