Update. From Les Carr (June 26), who is live blogging the ElPub conference:
I listened to John Willinsky give an inspirational keynote at ELPub 2008 this morning. He banged the drum for Open Access and announced an OA mandate for the Stanford School of Education. According to the story, he was describing the Harvard mandate to his colleagues in a meeting and they instantly voted to adopt a similar mandate themselves. Way to go!
Update. Here's the video of Willinsky making the announcement in Toronto on June 26. (Thanks to Bill Mann.) His talk starts at minute 24:45 and the policy announcement starts at minute 33:25. New detail: the Stanford policy was approved by a unanimous faculty vote, like the Harvard FAS and Law School policies.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/26/2008 12:57:00 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.
