An institution to address the needs of the knowledge society
Universities as the intellectual, cultural, and innovative infrastructure of society
Like public roads & parks, their product should be free
The Free University
Open access to research publications & proceedings
Open access to research data
Open educational resources
Free & open source software
Open access to library holdings
Open standards & file formats
Socially responsible patent policies
Praxis
The values of free culture are the values of academia
To fulfill their mission, universities must put their values into practice in their own administration
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 2/04/2008 06:30:00 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.
