Joseph M. Brewer and three co-authors, Libraries Dealing with the Future Now, ARL Bimonthly Report, June 2004. Covering a range of topics including library support for OA. For example, it sketches one scenario in which a library's serials budget is cut by 10%. A "muddling through" library will make cuts across the board. A "transitioning" library make cuts according to more rational criteria, targeting "journals with histories of high inflation". A "transformed" library will "[r]eallocate some of the serials budget to fees for campus authors to publish in open-access journals" and "[p]artner with other libraries to offer open access to articles through a federated network of institutional repositories."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2004 12:04:00 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.
