The September issue of the European Research News Centre, has an anonymous article on open access to science, especially in cognitive science, physics, and biology. Quoting Declan Butler, European correspondent for Nature: "Changes to the system of academic publishing are inevitable and necessary. All those involved in scientific information are now living in a phase of experimentation." (Thanks to Eric Zimmerman.)
In the same issue, Jon Bing and Robert Cailliau reflect on how science can take advantage of the internet . They mention access as one of the first advantages, but while they don't seem to know of any of the open-access initiatives, they assume its success enough to worry about the next phase. Quoting Bing: "'The need now is to develop the navigating and guidance strategies – what we call meta-information – to enable us to take our bearings in a prolific environment."
BTW, the rest of this issue is devoted to science and the media and would be useful for scientists whose work or (say) open-access advocacy leads them to deal with the press.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/17/2002 02:19:00 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.
