There's a new Slashdot thread on the European petition for OA to publicly-funded research. Unfortunately, it got off to a bad start by confusing open access and the public domain: "How do scientists feel about it? Does public funding really turn their results into public property?"
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2007 09:58:00 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.
