Elsevier has publicly released its comment opposing the NIH plan. Excerpt: 'Elsevier fully supports the NIH's goals of improved dissemination and enhanced access to NIH research for both specialized and general audiences, and offers to collaborate with the NIH to achieve these objectives....By working together, we seek to avert some serious risks that we foresee with the current draft NIH proposal, risks that we believe would detract from both NIH's and Elsevier's objectives....We would recommend that NIH request the author to deposit the manuscript on PMC 15-18 months after publication....Public access to STM journals and high quality validated research articles is [already] very good....In conclusion, we see STM publishing as a system that has developed over many years...."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/16/2004 11:25:00 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.
