http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/17JOUR.html?todaysheadlines
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have just given $9 million to the Public Library of Science http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ "they will announce the creation of two peer-reviewed online journals on biology and medicine, with the goal of cornering the best scientific papers and immediately depositing them in the public domain." Bravo to PLoS! This is splendid news for open access to research output. (This adds at least two more open-access journals to the 200 or more that already exist. But let it not make us complacent! There are 20,000 peer-reviewed journals in all. Researchers must not wait patiently for the other 99% of them to get around to being replaced or converted to open access! We need to make our own portions of them open-access right now, by self-archiving research output, both pre- and post peer-review: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ ) "Self-archive unto others as ye would have them self-archive unto you." Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html or http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Discussion can be posted to: [email protected] See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess the Free Online Scholarship Movement: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm the OAI site: http://www.openarchives.org and the free OAI institutional archiving software site: http://www.eprints.org/
