At Friday's plenary session on "Changing Systems of Scholarly Communication," Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, described the new online environment -- the world of open access, and of Web communities like Flickr and MySpace.com -- which he characterized as more participatory, interactive, and democratic than earlier versions of the online world. He cautioned the audience that "tomorrow's students aren't going to care about the printed artifact the way we care about it" and that "if you hold onto your content tightly ... you will be shut out of this economy of links."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/21/2006 09:09:00 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.
