Eight library and public interest organizations have issued a press release drawing attention to the upcoming launch of PLoS Biology and praising the open-access publishing model.
Quoting James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services at Columbia University and Chairman of SPARC: "PLoS has captured the imagination of scientists around the globe. The support it has garnered from leaders in biomedical research make it a potent symbol of the opportunity we have today to share scientific findings and propel innovation. The networked digital environment allows PLoS and similar initiatives to sustain the best features of traditional journal publishing but without perpetuating barriers to access and use. This is a milestone in the advancement of scholarly communication." The organizations behind the press release are the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Medical Library Association (MLA), the Open Society Institute (OSI), Public Knowledge (PK), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). (PS: Disclosure: I work for two of these organizations, PK and SPARC.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2003 01:47:00 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.
