David Dickson, UK's Royal Society urges caution on open access, SciDev.Net, March 12, 2004. Excerpt: The Royal Society "has endorsed a call by the international InterAcademy Panel ? of which it is a member ? that researchers in developing countries should be given immediate free access to electronic version of all articles appearing in scientific journals, and that those elsewhere should enjoy such access one year after publication. But it cautions that a full-scale shift to open-access models of publication, in which the production costs of journals are covered by the authors of the papers they publish rather than the users of this information, could raise many dangers. For example, it says that research funding organisations ? of which the Royal Society is itself one ? might have to reduce the amount of research they could support...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/12/2004 05:55:00 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.
