"Publishers providing high-value scientific, technical and medical content typically generate a high percentage of revenues from digital content sales. By providing readers with a fast and easy way to obtain digital permissions and reprints directly from their publications' Web sites, these content providers have a significant opportunity to improve customer satisfaction, optimize their digital content assets and increase revenues. In fact, Copyright Clearance Center estimates the size of the digital reuse market for the STM industry segment to be over $37 million in 2003."
--From a December 15 press release from the Copyright Clearance Center. (Thanks to the NFAIS Information Community News.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/16/2003 07:24:00 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.
