Documenta Mathematica, one of the SPARC-partner open-access journals, has saved so much money from the electronic publication of the proceedings of the I998 International Congress of Mathematicians that it was able to use the savings to endow a major new mathematics award: the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, which includes a medal and 10,000 Euros. Quoting Ulf Rehmann, managing editor of Documenta Mathematica: "Redirecting our earnings back into research, rather than giving it to commercial science publishers, is both logical and rewarding. It is our way of illustrating that electronic journals can succeed in returning science to its rightful owners, thus pushing research forward."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/19/2002 06:09:00 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.
