On December 11, Nature and the Alliance for Cellular Signalling launched the The Signalling Gateway, an ambitious and well-funded project to collect news and reviews and sponsor original research into the signalling pathways within a cell. The Gateway, its funders, and its participating scientists, are committed to making all the project's data and as much of the research software as possible, free of charge for other researchers. The AfCS has been committed to open access from the start. But by joining AfCS to sponsor the Gateway, Nature is launching its most significant experiment in open-access science to date. For more details, see FOSN for 2/14/02, Nature's story on the AfCS, its special suppment on cell signalling, or the December issue of the AfCS Newsletter.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/19/2003 07:58:00 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.
