Comment. Kudos to Tilburg, Delft, and Wageningen for their willingness to support gold OA. There are now more than a dozen universities with similar funds. On the other hand, any university willing to pay these fees should also be willing to adopt a strong policy to ensure green OA for its research output (or for the research that isn't already gold OA). The green and gold strategies are compatible and complementary. But a green OA policy costs less and covers all the peer-reviewed articles published by faculty, regardless of the journals in which they choose to publish.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/14/2009 12:00:00 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.
