Gavin Baker is at a conference where Kei Koizumi is speaking (not yet clear which conference). Here are three short micro-blog bursts from Gavin in the past hour:
1. Kei Koizumi, asst dir for federal R&D at Obama's Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaking. I'll ask if he'll support OA.
2. Asked Koizumi if Obama supports NIH policy, expanding it. A: We don't know yet; good arguments & advocates on both sides.
3. Koizumi: If OA continues, I'll be a big part of the discussion, since we'll have to find new ways to fund publishing.
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.
