If the phrase “open source” warms your heart, you’ve got a soul mate in Puneet Kishor.
The Nelson Institute Ph.D. student in environment and resources has been named a Science Commons Fellow by Creative Commons, a nonprofit corporation that promotes free, legal sharing of creative cultural, educational, and scientific materials.
As such, Kishor says he intends to “evangelize” open access to geospatial data, science, and technology. His interest in open access stems from a recent stint as a science and technology policy fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and as an elected charter member of the Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 5/29/2009 12:45:00 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.
