Louise Perry, Publish and be scanned, The Australian, March 16, 2005. Excerpt: 'The pressure to publish, long a bugbear of academic life, has eased at Monash University after the introduction of technology that promises to disseminate work across the world. Enter the ePress, viewed by many as an online godsend. With a click of the mouse, it gives researchers, scholars or students anywhere in the world access to Australian research. "This is the brave new world," said Cathrine Harboe-Ree, chief librarian at Monash...."This is a time of great exploration in academic publishing," Ms Harboe-Ree said. "It is an exciting time where we can look at presenting Australian research to the wider community, and with the ePress we are now well positioned to do that. To be able to present Australian research like this to the world is just a brilliant thing." RMIT University has the most highly developed university electronic publishing outfit in Australia. The Australian National University, the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney have smaller versions. Melbourne University Press has started to offer some of its material electronically, but the Monash University ePress differs from the others because - at least for the time being - it is focused on highlighting Monash academics and their research.'
(PS: According to Harboe-Ree's position paper earlier this month, the Monash ePress will at first produce priced content. But "[a]fter a period of time, Monash material published by the ePress will be made available on an open access basis.")
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/16/2005 03:49:00 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.
