More on the JISC purchase of BMC memberships for 180 UK universities....Kate Galbraith covers the story in the June 20 Chronicle of Higher Education (accessible only to subscribers). Quoting Jan Velterop, BMC's publisher, "The aim now is to really change the way publishing is done, make it a successful model. [Under the BMC publishing model] material can be open-access, which has great benefit for scientific efficiency and scientific equity." Quoting Philip Pothen of JISC: "This deal will not do away with [the $128 million UK universities spend every year on journals] in a stroke. [But the conventional publishing model] is costing universities a lot of money."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2003 05:55:00 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.
