Bernadine Healy, M.D., Power to the People!USNews.com, September 8, 2003. A good review of the problems solved by open access to medical journals. Healy, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, defends open access, but argues that there's more open access already than many people realize. (PS: She's right about the National Library of Medicine, although most of it is not full-text. She's also right that in principle users can find citations, identify authors, send letters or email, and ask for copies, which authors can provide without violating copyright. But in practice this method faces too many uncertainties and access barriers to count as a solution that makes open-access archives and journals unnecessary.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/04/2003 02:11:00 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.
