Dear Members, In this concise introduction, Peter Suber, who is considered as a leader of worldwide Open Access movement, explains in this book what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of his writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers. It has been published by MIT Press. Full text of the book in various formats is available at: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access I hope you may find it useful. Regards, Pujar -- Dr Shamprasad M. Pujar Deputy Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065, India Phone: ++91-22-2841 6547 E-mail: pujar@igidr.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.