...Cultural change is necessary to promote engagement between industry and research institutions. The National Academies Forum welcomes the emphasis on promoting broad academic collaboration with industry, going well beyond the limited relationship of 'commercialisation of research' to one where industry and the research community participates actively in the full research and innovation cycle.
We endorse open access to research outputs to facilitate academic, industry and community-wide collaboration. The National Academies Forum will continue to act strongly as a vector to promote this access....
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.
