In a strange town and need to find a public toilet? Or a postbox? Want to know whether that house you're thinking of buying is in that excellent school's catchment area? Or need to plan a cycling route? Or, perhaps, wondering if your local council recycles plastic with a "5" symbol on it?
In a few months you might be able to access a website that will do any - or each - of those. They were selected as the final five entries from the government's Show Us A Better Way competition, and will each receive part of the £80,000 prize funding from the Ministry of Justice, Department of Communities and Local Government, and Cabinet Office. The overall winner will be announced on the BBC's iPM news programme on Radio 4 on Saturday evening. ...
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.
