Anne Mahoney has written an article on Stoa, the consortium for open-access publishing in the humanities, The Stoa Consortium and Scholarly Publication. Excerpt: "[M]aterials at the Stoa are freely available to anyone. Newly published projects are announced on the Stoa's front page, and announcements are sent to various mailing lists. Because the Stoa is on the web, moreover, standard search engines (such as Google) index the projects. As a result, these texts reach a wider readership than most scholarly books. Over the past year, the Stoa has served an average of about 5,000 pages per day and has received visitors from over 100 different countries." Her paper will appear in the August 2003 issue of the New England Classical Journal.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/28/2003 10:10:00 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.
