In February, the Munk Centre, Berkman Center, and University of Cambridge launched the OpenNet Initiative, whose mission is to monitor, analyze, and expose national regimes of internet censorship, filtering, and surveillance around the world. It doesn't matter whether nations adopted these practices in order to protect intellectual property, national security, or religious orthodoxy. ONI's premise is that they "can seriously erode civil liberties and privacy, and stifle global communications." (Thanks to The Filter.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/15/2004 01:13:00 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.
