The Indian Institute of Technology Madras and British Council organised a talk on Towards a Science of the Web by Prof Wendy Hall, CBE FREng, University of Southampton, on February 19, 2007.
The initiative was to popularise the ‘Open Access’ method of information transfer....
In her talk ‘Towards a Science of the Web’, oganised as part of the Extra Mural Lecture Series at IITM, Dr Wendy Hall discussed how hypertext visionaries foresaw a richly inter-linked global information network....
Open Access to published research has been promoted and supported vigorously within the world’s research community over the last 10 years. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton was the first academic institution in the world to adopt a self-archiving mandate (2001). Since then ECS has created the first and most widely used archiving software (EPrints) and demonstrated the citation-impact advantage of self-archiving....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/22/2007 09:58:00 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.
