Gerry McKiernan, Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals, The Charleston Advisor, July 2004. Excerpt: "By providing access to more than 30 significant mathematical and statistics journals within a common framework, Project Euclid has clearly realized its primary goal of addressing 'the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries'. Through its range of access and distribution plans (i.e., Euclid Prime, Euclid Select, Euclid Direct, and Open Access) and the associated varied subscription and pay-per-view options, it has achieved its goal of providing low cost access to its component journals. The low subscription pricing for a range of subscribers is particularly noteworthy. While it currently provides access to only one Open Access title (Annals of Mathematics), Project Euclid is to be commended for utilizing the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol (OAI-PMH) (OAI-2.0) that allows its article metadata to be harvested by such OAI Service Providers as Euler, OAIster, and Scirus, as well as for its plans to offer Open Access to backfiles of journals older than five years."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/26/2004 07:38:00 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.
