... As of Labor Day, he had put, he estimates, more than 50 percent of the nation’s 11 public safety codes online, including rules for fire prevention. “We have material from all 50 states, but we don’t have all 11 codes for all 50 states,” he said.
His financing comes from open-information advocates like the eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s foundation and Google, but his goal is to get $10 million over a three-year period to :solve the problem" of uploading the overwhelming bulk of the country’s legal material. ...
Comment. At this rate, I'm not sure how Malamud has any time to do the work of PRO in between all the interviews. Keep it up!
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.
