Yesterday I reported that the proposal to require OA for publicly-funded research broke into the top 25 on Obama CTO, which put it on the front page where it would receive more attention and votes. That new attention, plus some helpful plugs from SPARC and the ATA, more than doubled the number of votes for the proposal overnight (from 300+ to 700+). It now ranks 16th and is no danger of being bumped off the front page. I don't expect it will surpass proposals for fair elections or network neutrality, but there's still room for growth. Thanks for your support and please keep spreading the word.
The Obama CTO site is unofficial. But Obama's transition team is well plugged in, and is surely monitoring the proposals on the list.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/05/2008 11:39:00 AM.
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.
