Linda Watson, Ivan Login, and Jeffrey Burns, Exploring new ways of publishing: a library-faculty partnership, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 91, 2 (April 2003) pp. 245–247. A case study from the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (CMHSL) to educate faculty about the advantages of submitting their research papers to open-access journals, like those from BioMed Central, and having them archived in open-access archives, like PubMed Central. This is the first detailed case study of its kind that I've seen, describing both librarian strategies and faculty reactions. Congratulations to the CMHSL librarians for their initiative and vision!
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/06/2003 12:49:00 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.
