Q: What would you say have been the big wins for the OA movement since the Budapest meeting, and what have been the big disappointments?
A: Since the launch of the BOAI, I would say there have been many more victories for the OA movement than disappointments. From OSI's perspective, we were thrilled when the HHMI held the Bethesda meeting [resulting in the Bethesda Statement], as well as Max Planck's interest in OA and the launch of the Berlin Declaration. Also of note was the Wellcome Trust's report and Wellcome's subsequent involvement in the OA movement, the UK enquiry, the NIH proposal (although not necessarily the final policy which emerged), OUP's adoption of the hybrid model for the Journal of Nucleic Acids, BioMed Central's launch of over 100 OA journals, and the $9 million grant from the Moore foundation to Public Library of Science, to name just a few. Clearly the UK government’s response and the current version of the NIH policy are somewhat disappointing, but on the whole the movement has accomplished a great deal in only a few years.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/11/2005 09:05:00 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.
