It had been a long day for Pieter Bolman, Elsevier executive and former CEO of such prestigious names in scholarly publishing as Pergamon and Academic Press. In the morning, he had, in his role as chair of the PSP Executive Council, intro duced the keynote speaker at the PSP 2003 Annual Confer-ence. He had served over the past several months as chair of the program planning committee. Bolman had just spent an hour on the firing line, debating the merits of alternative scholarly communications models that are, by definition, seeking directly to impinge on the business of his company and other journal publishers. The panel in which he was participating had just talked about "open-access" journals, such as those already (or soon to be) produced by High Wire Press, SPARC, and Public Library of Science (PLoS). It has also discussed the growing number of initiatives in the area of colleges developing institutional repositories to house scholars' works, such as MIT's DSpace program. This initiative is providing open digital access to out-of-print MIT books, data sets from researchers, and professors' lecture notes.
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