The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has released an issues paper, Sharing Information with Confidence: 'The Biodiversity Commons', May 2004. Excerpt: "Good information is critically important to good conservation of biodiversity and there is a recognition that we all need to share information far more regularly and openly than in the past. The cultural shift towards making information more readily available is already underway. The aim of the current report is to chart and analyse this change in relation to information on biodiversity, and to suggest how biodiversity information can be managed cooperatively, allowing greater access to data that will improve global responses to the challenges of biodiversity loss, climate change and ecosystem degradation." Section 2 (pp. 8-10) is devoted to open access; the remaining sections apply these ideas to literature and data on biodiversity. (Thanks to Charlotte Hess.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/29/2004 11:04:00 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.
