The National Weather Service has proposed OA to the weather data collected at taxpayer expense. According to a new Slashdot posting, Accuweather president Barry Myers is trying to mobilize the private weather forecasting industry to block the new policy and force the government to charge the public for access to its data and tools. Please comment on the new policy (by email or web form) before the June 30 deadline; the opponents of OA will be doing so.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/28/2004 07:42:00 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.
