The Open Access Movement
Scholars have one primary obligation to themselves and society. That is to develop new knowledge and share it openly with each other and society.
The Open Access movement has arisen partly in response to that desire and partly in response to the growing costs associated with traditional scholarly publishing efforts. Increasingly, new knowledge is being placed behind financial firewalls that impede access and benefit primarily the packagers rather than the producers of this valuable information.
For more information on activities related to Open Access, the following resources will be of benefit:
Open Access Blog and Newsletter (Peter Suber)
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Copyright issues
The true costs of e-publishing
Andrew Odlyzko: The Economics of Electronic Journals
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/odlyzko.html
www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/eworld.html
Julian Fisher: Fixing the Broken Toaster: Scholarly Publishing Re-imagined
Science and Technology Libraries 2007 (in press)
Mike Sosteric: The Upcoming Revolution in the Scholarly Communication System
www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/sosteric.html
Carl Bergstrom and Theodore Bergstom: The Economics of Scholarly Journal Publishing