Q: What was the genesis of the Public Library of Science?
A: A conversation with Pat Brown in San Francisco in December 1998, a year before I left the NIH, about the open access preprint archive that physicists had set up at Los Alamos National Laboratory got me thinking for the first time about open access publishing in biology and medicine. The Public Library of Science began as an advocacy group for the NIH archive, PubMedCentral, about a year after I left the NIH. Subsequently it became a publishing house and you can read all about it and see the journals at www.plos.org.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/22/2004 09:13:00 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.
