Richard Gallagher has an editorial in the March 10 issue of The Scientist, Will the Walls Come Tumbling Down? Half the piece is on the open-access journals forthcoming from the Public Library of Science. The PLoS "editorial board reads like a Who's Who of the biology community" and if its journals are successful, then the open-access model "will trigger a seismic change in academic publishing". The other half is on the defensive strategies of traditional journals, which are liberalizing their copyright and self-archiving policies, though perhaps not enough to meet the open-access competition. "Now that there is a choice of publishing model, the wishes of the author community remain to be seen. Over to you...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/07/2003 08:22:00 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.
