SciDev.Net Weekly Update: 14 November 2005

OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVING: THE FAST TRACK TO BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Scientific progress in developing countries is significantly hampered by the high cost of subscribing to the scientific and medical journals that are essential for research to flourish.

Three of the world's leading open access experts, Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Subbiah Arunachalam describe how 'open archiving' can transform the research scene from one of isolation and marginalisation, to one of inclusion and international cooperation.

This document is available in the following formats: pdf (366kb), MS Word (184kb), plain text (55kb) and html.

Please see http://www.scidev.net/ms/openaccess/