The leaders of European Union (EU) member states have endorsed a statement calling for the recognition of scientific and technological knowledge as "indispensable" to sustainable development in Africa....And they have suggested that creating advanced communications networks linking national research and education institutions could overcome the "inadequacies" of the market in building cost-effective communications solutions within developing countries.
Comment. If the EU recommendations are to have practical impact, then the new communications infrastructure must include interoperable OA repositories and policies to fill them. To say that knowledge is indispensable for development is really ellipitical for saying that accessible knowledge is indispensable for development.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2005 01:51:00 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.
