The NIH has posted a set of PPT slides, NIH Public Access Proposed Policy. Excerpt: 'What is wrong with the current system?...The proposed NIH policy would provide the patient and/or physician electronic access to NIH-funded publications six months after publicationo for no fee. Currently, in order to gain access to NIH-funded published findings, a patient or physician who is not affiliated with an academic medical library or research hospital must: personally visit a medical library (if it is convenient); order a copy of the article from the author or the library and wait for delivery; or have a personal subscription to the journal....We are not aware of evidence that indicates that libraries and individual subscribes are likely to cancel subscriptions because of the NIH policy.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/14/2004 08:23:00 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.
