I just mailed the October issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a close look at the September activity on the NIH open-access plan. It reprints fascinating excerpts from an ancestral version of the open-access debate 30 years ago, when the disruptive technology was not the internet but photocopying machines. For no reason except maybe the fall colors, it also offers a haiku introduction to open access.
Update. I'm receiving more than the usual number of signs that issues are being trapped and rejected as spam. If you are a subscriber and didn't receive your copy by email, then please take two steps. First, tell your sysadmin to add SOAN to your spam filter's whitelist. Second, read the October issue, or any other issue, online.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/02/2004 08:35:00 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.
