More on open-access to scientific data....Peg Brinckley, Free access costs money, The Scientist, February 21, 2003. A recent NAS report, Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Life Sciences, concluded that scientists who publish research papers ought to provide open access to the underlying data. Brinckley reports that most biologists seem to agree with the conclusion, but that there are two obstacles to implementing the NAS recommendation: "convincing funding sources that they should help pay the freight for sharing huge loads of microarray data is not so easy" and "the technology is a work in progress".
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/10/2003 10:46:00 PM.
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.
