Alastair Dryburgh, moderator of the Economics of Open Access discussion forum, has launched the Dryburgh Associates Newsletter on academic, business, and professional publishing. Alastair predicts that each issue will contain something on open access. The first issue (December 2003) includes a brief report on a breakfast forum on open access hosted by Electronic Publishing Services in November. Excerpt from the newsletter: "If you knew the speakers you knew before you went what they were going to say, but the interesting thing was who was in the audience: venture capitalists, very senior figures from large publishers not noted for their enthusiasm for OA, investment analysts... The issue is clearly moving up the agenda."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/14/2003 04:32:00 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.
