Nettes Zitat

Ryan Overbey, Ryan’s Lair, September 15, 2004. „I look forward to the day when librarians tell their grandchildren about bundled journal packages that cost over $10k a year, straining the already-strained budgets of research libraries, just because academics were too lazy and timid to publish in new fora with new technology. The grandchildren will laugh, and wonder how we could ever have been so stupid.“ [via Open Access News]

Cologne Summit on Open Access Publishing

Schon mal den 7. und 8. Dezember 2004 freihalten: Die ZB Med plant einen „Cologne Summit on Open Access Publishing“ (noch keine offizielle Webseite). Herausragende Exponenten der Open Access Bewegung sollen bei dieser Konferenz vertreten sein.

BioMed Central bietet Unis Hochschulschriften-Archive an

Für die, die es sich nicht leisten können: BioMed Central today launched Open Repository, an open-access repository service for universities and research institutions. Advanced search functionality will be a part of the service, as will links to and from databases, for example PubMed. – Spannend! Lesen Sie auch: Mark Chillingworth, BioMed Central opens access to institutional repositories, Information World Review, September 15, 2004. [via Open Acess News]