Mary Beard was recently at a conference at which Carl Djerassi defended the idea that young couples should bank their sperm and eggs while young in order to make babies when they are older, and Harold Varmus defended the idea of OA. Beard writes:
...Varmus's idea was more mainstream....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/28/2009 01:26:00 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.
