I agree with christian on the fact that it's less a business programm but an ethic, scientific, epistemic, humanitarian programm that we have to search behind Open Access. In fact, Open access is a movement in itself, that could be related, in some aspect, to open source or rather Free Software for the ethic of freedom of use and diffusion that is associated with the project. But each medium and movement having their own specificities, it might be more relevant to look at the fundation and aims of the Open Acess movement. Here's some links : * ArXiv, the first ever Open Archive: http://www.arxiv.org/ * Open Archives Initiative : http://www.openarchives.org/ * The european blog on the subject of OpenAcces: http://www.europenscience.org/ * A list of Lists and Documents Related to The Open Access Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#declarations * What's at stake for developping countries http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information * Some reports on the subject: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/Romeo%20Deliverables... * A colored classification of publisher's archiving policies http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoinfo.html#colours * Analysis on author self-archiving http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html ...and some other ressources, in French : http://affordance.typepad.com/mon_weblog/open_access/index.html * Les modèles libres pour l'accès à l'information http://www.adbs.fr/uploads/journees/2937_fr.php * La politique de diffusion de l'information http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00134574/en/ * Du rayonnage à l'archive ouverte http://www.irisa.fr/activites/new/007/irisaopenarchive006 bonne lecture, Anne Goldenberg (who's preparing an article on the subject). On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:25:25 +0200 Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at> wrote:
"i like the idea of open content journals.!
i mean open access, not content.
c.