Open Access : Chronicle story and colloquy on open access. Lila Guterman, The Promise and Peril of 'Open Access', Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2004 (accessible even to non-subscribers). A major overview of OA, its progress, its critics, and its future. Excerpt: "The good guys, in the eyes of many scientists and librarians, are the revolutionaries offering an alternative to the publishing status quo. They are creating online journals that charge no subscription fees. These agitators for change want to rescue librarians from the tyranny of prohibitively costly journals -- upwards of $20,000 per year -- and to empower researchers who, because of the expense, often have difficulty keeping up with new developments in their fields. Instead of charging subscription fees, the new online journals require the authors to pay, charging fees that range from $500 to $1,500 -- a small sum compared with, say, most biomedical-research grants from the National Institutes of Health."

This Thursday, January 29, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm Eastern time, the Chronicle will host a live online colloquy on open access. I will be the guest and answer questions posed by online readers. The colloquy is open to non-subscribers, and readers may start posting questions at any time. If you can't monitor the colloquy in real time, the Chronicle will publish a transcript afterwards. [Open Access News]

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Open Access : New issue of Science & Technology Libraries. The new issue of Science & Technology Libraries (vol. 22, no. 3/4) is now online. Many of its articles are OA-related. Only the TOC and abstracts are free online.

• Paul Ginsparg, Can Peer Review Be Better Focused?
• Michel R. Dagenais, The Future of Scientific and Technical Journals
• Catherine B. Soehner, The eScholarship Repository: A University of California Response to the Scholarly Communication Crisis
• Kimberly Douglas, Conference Proceedings at Publishing Crossroads
• Susan Hall, Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Enhancing Scholarly Communication and Graduate Student Experience
• Dana L. Roth, Chemistry Journals: Cost Effectiveness, Seminal Titles and Exchange Rate Profiteering
• John Cruickshank, The Role of Scientific Literature in Electronic Scholarly Communication
• Kate Thomas, Scholarly Communication in Flux: Entrenchment and Opportunity
• Janet A. Hughes, Issues and Concerns with the Archiving of Electronic Journals
• David Stern, User Expectations and the Complex Reality of Online Research Efforts
• Locke J. Morrisey, Bibliometric and Bibliographic Analsis in an Era of Electronic Scholarly Communication
• Gerry McKiernan, Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing

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