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Open Access News is one of the best sources of news in this area.
Interview with Beverlee French on the CDL situation.
Phil Greenspun wrote about this issue and got some good discussion.
Open Access Conference - Berlin Declaration
Does open access promote greater readership? Effect of open access on citation impact: a bibliography of studies via DavidWiley
A major paper: Open Access Bibliography
origin of Open Access
Current Cites, October 2004: Poynder, Richard.
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"Ten Years After" Information Today 21(9) (2004) (http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct04/poynder.shtml). - No, this article is not about the famous rock band that shook Woodstock with "I'm Going Home." Rather, it's about how Stevan Harnad shook-up the scholarly publishing world in the ten years after his famous "subversive proposal." Poynder says that ". . . while Harnad cannot claim to have invented the OA movement, his phenomenal energy and determination, coupled with a highly focused view of what is needed, undoubtedly earns him the title of chief architect of open access." But this article is a not just a paean to Harnad's many notable accomplishments, it is also an interesting, very concise history of the open access movement that touches on its struggles as well as its triumphs. -
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After:
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The open access (OA) movement has had some big wins this year: In July, a cross-party group of British politicians called on the U.K. government to make all publicly funded research accessible to everyone "free of charge, online." That same month, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations recommended that all NIH-funded research be made freely available 6 months after publication. But where did the OA movement come from, and where is it taking us?
