I just mailed the May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news and bibliography from the past month, it takes a look at the Credit Suisse First Boston report on the STM journal industry, the case for OAI archiving in the age of Google, and two distractions that can lead friends of OA to lose their focus and waste energy.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/03/2004 12:24:00 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.
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.
