Blackwell issued a press release today on its journal program at the start of 2006. It contains this sentence:
Blackwell also provides expert guidance on a range of publishing issues, such as peer review, open access, and readership.
Comment. Blackwell has a commendable self-archiving policy and author-choice OA model called Online Open. But before journals consider it an expert on OA they should consider the hasty generalization of its President Bob Campbell ("The OA model is not secure financially, it isn't delivering a stable platform and I don't think it's sustainable" --November 2005) and the uninformed comments of its CEO Rene Olivieri ("the economics [OA] employs is more in the Marx and Lenin mould than in the neoclassical tradition recognised by most economists today" --August 2005).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/09/2006 01:41:00 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.
