The Scientific Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) recently released a free online book, Science Dissemination Using Open Access, a compendium of selected literature on Open Access (OA). Edited by E. Canessa and M. Zennaro, the book is an effort by SDU in collaboration with CERN and with support from INASP.
The new open access book seeks to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access, and the plethora of low-cost solutions available. A compendium of selected literature on OA is presented to increase the awareness of the potential of open publishing in general. The book also aims to encourage decision makers in academia and research centers to adopt institutional and regional OA Journals and Archives to make their own scientific results public and fully searchable on the Internet.
Science Dissemination Using Open Access can be downloaded for free, or seen on-line at the website http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html.
