Rice University has created a Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP). This is a wireless platform, OA in the sense that it's extensible and programmable. It's a "research platform" in the sense (apparently) that it's an experiment for teaching and learning, although it's actually in use at more than two dozen universities and companies around the world. All its hardware and software documents are OA in our sense. To trigger further development of the platform, and research on wireless architecture, Rice has launched an accompanying open-access WARP repository to contain the working documents and discussion, as they evolve.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/10/2008 12:54:00 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.
