The March issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. This issue features a long section on Library Access to Scholarship and other sections on RSS and ebooks. The Access section covers the NIH public-access policy and the public response as well as a few of my own writings. Walt is very good at skewering incoherent publisher objections. One quick example: Pat Schroeder and the AAP criticized Congress and the NIH for failing to conduct extensive hearings like the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. "To put it another way, using reality-based thinking: The findings of the committee that carried out the 'deliberate, participatory process' Schroeder calls for were summarily dismissed by the UK government."
I thank Walt for this endorsement of my newsletter, though with regret if it means that he'll be writing less about OA in the future: "I’m probably not the first to suggest that SOAN is effectively the medium of record for OA, but it's true --and in my experience, Peter Suber's clear advocacy does not cause him to cover OA-related issues in a prejudicial or biased manner. If you care about Open Access, you should be reading SOAN. If you’re reading SOAN, you don’t need a redundant summary from Cites & Insights."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/24/2005 08:02:00 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.
