The Norwegian Health Services Research Centre has negotiated an agreement in which Norway will (1) buy BioMed Central institutional memberships for "all universities, polytechnics research institutes and hospitals in Norway" and (2) pay processing fees on articles accepted at BMC journals "for all publicly funded researchers, doctors and teachers in Norway." Quoting Arild Bjørndal, Medical Director of the NHSRC, in today's press release: "Open access is the way forward in medical publishing. We must put a stop to the way that scarce public resources are used; first to fund research and then again to pay to be able to read the results of that same research. Our institution is striving to improve access to reliable and relevant research for everybody; hence we want to encourage Norwegian researchers to publish through open access solutions like BioMed Central....Creating better access to research information is one of the means to stimulate a more evidence based health service in Norway. "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/18/2004 08:10:00 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.
