Wave will be open source, rest on open standards (particularly HTML 5), and offer open APIs. It's an ambitious, versatile tool that will implicate OA primarily in the ways in which it supports document sharing and collaborative document writing.
For an early review of Wave's capabilities, see the article by Juan Carlos Perez in PC World or the article by MG Siegler in TechCrunch.
Update (5/29/09). The 120 minute video demo of Wave wasn't available yesterday but it's available today. Recommended.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/28/2009 06:10:00 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.
