The DC Principles Coalition has publicly released its October 17 letter to the NIH urging it to reconsider its public-access policy. The coalition recommends that NIH link from PubMed abstracts to full-text articles at publisher web sites (free online after a 12 month embargo) rather than host free online copies of the articles itself. Opponents of the NIH policy have proposed this alternative before, and it's not likely that their arguments will be more successful this time than in the past.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/18/2005 09:49:00 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.
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.
