Open access grab bag

A few open access news stories that have been lingering in my "to read" list...

• Medical News Today: "Announcing the launch of Open Access Central" - launched by the producers of BioMed Central, Open Access Central will broaden the group's open access umbrella to mathematics and the sciences


• Oxford University Press: "Demand for open access 'low'" - OUP report examining statistics for author-pay model in its publications indicates slow adoption; notes much of the uptake has been in the life sciences
  
• Nature Publishing Group: Press release announcing open access to all online content before January 2003


• Inside Higher Ed: "Momentum for open access research" - discussing the proposed Federal Public Research Access Act and examining the national open access debate