The Open Knowledge Society launched in Kerala, India, apparently last week. From the front page:
...Open Knowledge Society aims to provide a platform for the people working for the cause of open access to come together for promoting access to scholarly knowledge....
Open Knowledge Society aims to facilitate all forms of Open Access to Knowledge.
It includes:
Supporting creation of Institutional Repositories
Supporting publication of Open Access Journals
Supporting conversion of print journals into online versions
Supporting making online journals OAI-PMH complaint
Supporting automation of libraries
Supporting Digital Libraries
Supporting Open Courseware and Open Data
Other activities that promotes open access to knowledge.
PS: Welcome to the OKS!
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/05/2008 03:32:00 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.