CODATA helps to form COMMUNIA, a European Thematic Network
Working back through the year, in November CODATA signed a European Thematic Network Agreement with the Politecnico of Turin, Italy on the “Public Domain in the Digital Age.” This 36-partner project, known as COMMUNIA, aims to build a network of organizations to become the single European point of reference for high-level policy discussion and strategic action for all issues relating to the public domain in the digital environment....
CODATA hosts Workshop in Paris in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Science Commons
In September 2007, CODATA, in collaboration with GBIF and Science Commons , hosted a meeting at the Sorbonne Paris on common use licensing of scientific data products....
CODATA Task Groups
The Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries organized a major workshop in Brazil in May....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/15/2008 10:24:00 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.
