A blog posting on paidContent.org offers this interpretation of the Google-Elsevier deal: Google is indexing ScienceDirect content for the Google Print project and placing Google AdSense advertisements on the Google Print return pages. The only payments that Google will make to Elsevier are for click-throughs on the ads, the same deal that Google makes with every other host of AdSense ads. (Thanks to Jan Velterop. This reading makes sense of the original story and supports the suspicions I voiced yesterday.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/22/2004 02:41:00 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.
