Open online access Re: Giving reprints

[Geoff Read]

Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo wrote:
> Because of limited subscriptions in most Mexican libraries, we have a
> chronic lack of connections with recent publications. [...]

When Sergio wrote that back in January I was going to comment along the 
lines that we must all try to make our publications freely available on the 
internet - it's called "self-archiving", and of course some list members have 
done it already (a massive namanereid review comes to mind :-)). Recently 
in news reports is the "Budapest Open Access Initiative" which aims to 
support and help with this task.   

Read about it at: 

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pubaffrs/02022.htm
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/


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  Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
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