ALPSP is conducting a survey of journal publishers on their prices, licensing terms, and policies on issues such as author retention of copyright and self-archiving. The survey has no date or due date, so I can't tell whether this is old news. The premise of the survey seems to be that the open-access movement is getting one-sidedly favorable treatment in the press. "The media has reported increasing concern that the market for published scholarship and research is not working effectively. Disquiet is evidenced by the Public Library of Science initiatives, the establishment of SPARC and PubMed Central and the publication of the 'Budapest Manifesto'. Much of the commentary in the press, listservs and conferences is wild and often inaccurate about the role and responsibility of scholarly publishers."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/05/2003 07:44:00 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.
