In a recent debate in the German Bundestag on a copyright amendment, the Green party again focused on the needs of science and scholarship rather than entertainment. Quoting party spokesperson Grietje Bettin: "Wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass das öffentlich generierte Wissen auch breit zugänglich gemacht wird." Read Stefan Krempl's German or Google's English. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/16/2002 09:32:00 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.
