Eric Mockensturm has launched a wiki, Open Source Publishing 2.0, outlining a proposal on which he is inviting collaboration. Excerpt:
The idea of openness is gaining much momentum in our society as open source software becomes more popular, and vast amounts of information and data are openly available via the internet. The academic community has been one of the biggest proponents of openness as it is primarily concerned with education....However, one curiously closed system that is of primary importance to the academic community is the publishing and reviewing system....
Open source publishing refers to the openness of the authoring and reviewing process while open access refers to the openness to the reader. These two paradigms are related but need not be dependent on one another. However, it is the PI’s hope that open source publishing will lead to open access....
Update. Also see Eric's blog post about the proposal (June 18, 2007) and the comments it has generated.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2007 05:44:00 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.
