In celebration of Open Access Day, October 14, 2008, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) will launch a new book, Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development. The volume is the first in a new series of research on access to knowledge published by the Yale ISP. ...
The October 14 launch date is timed to coincide with the first ever Open Access Day. ...
Consistent with the values of Open Access, the ISP publication will be made widely available to the public. A digital edition may be accessed for free from http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/6620.htm and through Google Books. Print-on-demand copies will be available for purchase at cost through the printing service Lulu.com. The book will also be available through traditional retail outlets.
The authors, editor and publishers have also made the entire work available under a Creative Commons license. ...
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.
