Sarah Hall, Research boss wary over web publishing, The Guardian, May 6, 2004. Excerpt: "The government would have to be 'pretty brave' to demand open access publishing for all publicly funded scientific research journals, a government adviser said yesterday. Professor Sir Keith O'Nions, the director-general of the Research Councils, yesterday said that it would be 'unwise' for ministers to demand that government-funded journals should be available without charge over the internet." (PS: The better policy is for the government to require OA to all taxpayer-funded research, but without specifying that it must be through OA journals. It could be through OA archives. That would insure that there was enough capacity to hold all taxpayer-funded research and at the same time preserve the freedom of authors to publish in the journals of their choice. Doubts about the OA journal business model, even though they are answerable, needn't enter the picture at all.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/05/2004 10:27:00 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.
