In October, the ACRL Science and Technology Section, the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division, and the Special Libraries Association Science-Technology Division co-sponsored a survey on the "hot topics" among sci-tech librarians. The preliminary results show that "open access journals in the sciences" is #1. (Thanks to EngLib.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/11/2004 01:19:00 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.