This has already been picked up by at least one blogger, and I’ve been remiss in not blogging it earlier. Cogniview has developed an open source tool for embedding CC license metadata in PDF output. You can find a screencast and download information on their website....
Comment. For publishers who insist on using PDFs, this is good news. But my hope is that publishers will adopt CC licenses and drop PDFs.
Update. I should have been clearer: I don't mind if publishers use PDFs, provided they offer an HTML alternative.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/12/2007 02:43:00 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.