David Dickson, Developing country researchers get 'open access' boost, SciDev.Net, March 29, 2004. A report on last week's announcement from OSI that it was funding memberships in PLoS for research institutions in developing countries. Excerpt: "The new grants programme...will cover the costs of 12 months' 'institutional membership' to PLoS for 50 selected institutions in developing and transition countries (the latter referring primarily to former communist states in eastern Europe)....OSI officials say that the new programme reflects their commitment to the principle of free access to the results of scientific research, and in particular to the potential benefits that open access models of scientific publishing offers to researchers in the developing world. 'Scientists in poorer countries have been virtually excluded from the journal publishing world,' says Darius Cuplinskas, director of the institute's information programme. 'Open access journals will remove barriers and make these scientists full members of the international scientific community. "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/27/2004 03:27:00 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.
