Jocelyn Kaiser, NIH Proposes 6-Month Public Access to Papers, Science, Vol 305, Issue 5690, 1548 , 10 September 2004. (Access restricted to subscribers.) A recap of the NIH six-month proposal includes comments from SPARC's Richard Johnson, who expresses significant support for the initiative, and notes skepticism and opposition on the part of scientific societies and the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
Posted by
Garrett at 9/10/2004 09:54:00 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.
