Malcolm Morgan, Agenda - Relief for academic firms, Media Week, November 16, 2004. Excerpt: 'This week, the Government issued its response to the House of Commons Science Committee report Scientific Publications: Free for all. And its response must have come as music to the ears of the commercial publishers. It concluded: "A publishing model which loads the cost onto the authors of articles rather than the users is not likely to be in our national interest." On the thorny issue of profit margins, again the Government noted "it is not a matter for government to determine profit margins for commercial firms". Hurray! The needless undermining of a robust UK industry ultimately serves no one....If I were advising an academic publisher, I would be pleased with this week’s result, but would still urge them to tread carefully and not trumpet my price increases so publicly in future.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/16/2004 09:12:00 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.
