Chris Johnston, Call to put research free on websites, Times Higher Education Supplement, December 19, 2003 (accessible only to subscribers). On Stevan Harnad's submission to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee investigating journal prices and accessibility. Harnad wants the committee to expand its scope from open-access journals to open-access archives. Quoting Harnad: "The longer we wait [to archive peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints], the longer and bigger will be our growing daily, weekly, monthly and yearly loss of research impact because of self-denial [PS: Harnad wrote "access-denial"] to would-be users worldwide. This represents a needless cumulative loss of research progress and productivity for researchers, their institutions, their funders and, ultimately, for taxpayers who fund the funders."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2003 08:05:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
