Jon Danzig, Acromegaly: My DIY diagnosis, The Independent, October 29, 2007. (Thanks to Matt Cockerill.) This is Danzig's first-person story of how he correctly diagnosed his own acromegaly after years of inaccurate diagnoses by his doctors and consulting specialists. He doesn't describe the kind of research he did to make the diagnosis, so we don't know that he used OA literature. All we know is that OA literature makes this kind of research much easier.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/29/2007 08:28:00 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.
