In our latest podcast I talk with Savas Parastatidis and Alex Wade, members of the External Research Team within Microsoft Research. We discuss Microsoft Research’s interest in scholarly communication and the recent beta release of Famulus, their ‘Research-Output Repository Platform.’
Towards the end of the conversation we explore the relationship between the Semantic Web and Microsoft’s notion of Semantic Computing. ...
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.
