On the opening day of the Founding Conference of Expatriate Arab Scientists (Doha, Qatar, April 24-26, 2006), Harold Varmus argued for open access. That's all I've been able to find out. The conference has no web site and the presentations are not online. If you have more info, please drop me a line.
Update (4/29/06). Here's the program for the Doha conference.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/25/2006 08:00:00 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.
