When is open access not open access? Wiley Interscience now offers pay-per-view to all its electronic journals and books. The press release boasts that the company is "opening up access" to its electronic content. (PS: Compared to subscription-only access, pay-per-view does open things up a bit. However, now that the term "open access" is a widely recognized term of art in the journal industry, Wiley's use of language to echo this term is misleading. Moving print journals from closed stacks to open stacks also opens up access a bit. So does unlocking the library and turning on the lights. But none of these is open access.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/20/2003 05:28:00 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.
