Richard Wray, EC inquiry puts pressure on Reed, The Guardian, June 18, 2004. Excerpt: "The European commission is to investigate the scientific publishing industry, increasing pressure on Reed Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of scientific journals. Europe generates more than 40% of scientific periodicals but the commission estimates that the price of these magazines and papers has increased 10% each year over the last 10 years - well above inflation. It will look at the trend towards open access publishing where academics pay to publish articles which are freely available on the internet....The commission's move was welcomed by Jan Velterop, director of BioMed Central which produces 110 open access journals in the fields of biology and medicine. 'Calls are increasing from the scientific community for greatly improved access to scientific literature, which the internet now makes possible. Depriving science and society of the full potential of research literature is holding back the speed and effectiveness of scientific and medical research.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/17/2004 10:37:00 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.
