PS: "Open" here seems to mean nothing more than openness to voting by anyone. The award categories include sports and fitness, celebrity and gossip, and dating and romance. All right. But why not a category for science and scholarship? (There are a few scholarly nominations in the Wiki and Environmental categories.) Or how about some web-wide awards for sites that are open in the stronger sense, as in open source and open access? The anthropologists have made a good start, but how about something for all disciplines, all countries, and all languages?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/22/2008 02:06:00 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.
