David Shatto is trying to persuade the State of California to provide open access to California-funded stem-cell research. From his public announcement yesterday: 'California will soon start spending $3 billion over 10 years on biomedical research. How it handles the breakthroughs it makes can bring tremendous benefits - not only to Californians, but for all humanity. The organization that will decide how these breakthroughs are controlled has a lot of pressure from many different competing interests. I'm starting a project that would urge them to do what Jonas Salk did with his polio vaccine in the early 1950's - make all breakthoughs freely available to all humanity.' Also see the Slashdot thread he has launched on this topic. (PS: I hope all OA supporters in California can join David in this effort.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/31/2005 10:09:00 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.
