A consumer health column in today's Detroit News includes a mention of PLoS Medicine alongside tips on exercise and dieting during Thanksgiving. 'A new general medical journal is publishing important, peer-reviewed biomedical research. Unlike most medical journals, which are available only through costly subscriptions, PLoS Medicine is available free of charge and accessible to everyone through the Internet, at www.plos medicine.org. PLoS Medicine is published by the Public Library of Science, a coalition of researchers and physicians.' (PS: I like this. Even if we think that researchers are the primary audience of OA peer-reviewed research, and that most members of the lay public will benefit only indirectly from it, we should encourage steps like this one to make OA research known to all who can make use of it.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/17/2004 09:15:00 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.
