Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine has posted three comments in response to Stevan Harnad's article in the December 2007 issue, Ethics of open access to biomedical research: Just a special case of ethics of open access to research. One comment is by Yuntao Wu, one by Jean-Claude Guédon, and one is a response by Stevan to Jean-Claude's comment (on the relative weight of access for lay readers in the rationale for OA policies).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/23/2008 05:38:00 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.
