... The pages aim to provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets.
Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic. These are:
Sharing data - why and how?
Consent, confidentiality and ethics
Copyright
Data documentation and metadata
Data formats and software
Data storage, back-up, and security ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/05/2009 05:16:00 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.
