Tomorrow BBC Radio 4 will broadcast Publish or Be Damned from 20:00 until 20:40. From the BBC web page: 'Scientific publishing is undergoing a revolution, with scientists and policy makers fed up that valuable research is being locked away in expensive subscription only journals. Now, writers of the material are launching their own competing journals and giving away the results for free. But not everyone is happy. In Publish or be Dammed, Richard Black examines each side of the debate and assesses the likely consequences for science.' If you miss it, you'll be able to hear a webcast later.
Update. The BBC now has a permanent page on the program, with a summary and a link to the audio.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/20/2004 02:42:00 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.
