Because of relative isolation that still persists in developing countries, scientists are often unaware of the extent and nature of science that is being done in their regions. They also have some difficulty in publicizing their work quickly. To provide assistance in these matters, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has organized an Open Access Archive to allow the scientific work of any scientists from any country to be posted free of charge....Authors may upload pre-prints, reprints, conference papers, pre-publication book chapters and CV. Before archiving the previously published work, the authors must review the copyright agreement with the publishers....If you are a scientist subscriber of the free electronic Journal Delivery Service (eJDS), residing in a developing country, and do not have a reasonable fast connection to the Internet, you can get any document from this archive via e-mail.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/12/2005 01:08:00 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.
