Fifty-one liberal arts college libraries, known as the Oberlin Group, have become institutional members of the Public Library of Science. Today's press release quotes Larry Frye, Head Librarian at Wabash College: "My colleagues and I welcome the opportunity to support efforts such as PLoS that offer our science faculties a new way to share their research widely as a public resource available to other scholars around the world. We hope that our commitment will encourage other academic libraries to join PLoS." (PS: I'm very proud to say that Earlham College, where I taught for 21 years, and where I retain a research affiliation, is a member of this group.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/15/2004 08:32:00 AM.
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.
