Here's a survey on open datadue today. Sorry I didn't notice it earlier. (Thanks to Mario.) From the survey introduction:
Together with a consortium of evolutionary biology journals and scientific societies, the U.S. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the UNC Chapel Hill Metadata Research Center are establishing a digital repository that will allow users to store and retrieve the data that underly published works in the field.
As part of that initiative, we are studying attitudes and practices in data sharing among evolutionary biologists. We are inviting all evoldir readers (including students, postdocs, educators and researchers) to help in this effort by completing a short survey....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/16/2008 08:20:00 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.
