I just mailed the September issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at Jan Velterop's move to Springer and Elsevier's experiment with free online access at Information and Computation. It also includes some reflections on 9/11, four years later. The Top Stories section takes a brief look at the continuing debate over the draft RCUK policy, some OA initiatives in India, Google's decision to suspend the scanning of copyrighted books until November, and a new JISC-SURF report on scholar attitudes toward copyright.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/02/2005 01:21:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
