July 15, 2002
Open access publishing
THIS WEEK NetSpeak takes a look at the various twists and turns of the `open access publishing' movement that aims to make research publications available for free on the Net and allow anybody to read, copy and print them without any restrictions.
Open-source is one of the fascinating movements that originated on the Net and regular readers of this column need no introduction to this method of software development (http://www.opensource.org). Another movement, which shares some of the ethos of open-source philosophy that is slowly gaining prominence and attention is open access publishing, which attempts to free the research reports from the grip of established professional journals.
Open-source is one of the fascinating movements that originated on the Net and regular readers of this column need no introduction to this method of software development (http://www.opensource.org). Another movement, which shares some of the ethos of open-source philosophy that is slowly gaining prominence and attention is open access publishing, which attempts to free the research reports from the grip of established professional journals.
