There's an interesting article on "open-source biology", entitled May the Source Be With You, by Nicholas Thompson, in The Washington Monthly, July/August 2002. In the article, a linkage is made between open-source biology and PubMed Central, the NIH-sponsored digital archive of peer-reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences.
Posted by
Jim Till at 7/12/2002 11:47:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
