Paul David, The Economic Logic of "Open Science" and the Balance between Private
Property Rights and the Public Domain in Scientific Data and Information: A Primer, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, March 17, 2003. Excerpt: "[O]pen science is properly regarded as uniquely well suited to the goal of maximising the rate of growth of the stock of reliable knowledge. High access charges imposed by holders of monopoly rights in intellectual property have overall consequences for the conduct of science that are particularly damaging to programs of exploratory research....Considered at the macro-level, open science and commercially oriented R&D based upon proprietary information constitute complementary sub-systems. The public policy problem, consequently, is to keep the two sub-systems in proper balance by public funding of 'open science' research, and by checking excessive incursions of claims to private property rights over material that would otherwise remain in the public domain of scientific data and information." (Thanks to Darius Cuplinskas.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/14/2003 01:45:00 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.
