I just found this post in my blogging queue for May 9. After writing it, I forgot to post it. (Now I wonder how often I've done that.) Apologies for the delay.
Michael Geist has a good idea: instead of pointing to an ongoing conference, or a past conference, he found four presentations he liked and blogged them together as a "virtual conference". (It's a good idea even though one of the four is mine.)
See his virtual conference on OA, with presentations by Melissa Hagemann, John Willinsky, Francis Pinter, and me.
I went looking because I wanted to link back to it when citing Michael's new Friday Forum on OA, with presentations by Carl Malamud, Leslie Chan, Subbiah Arunachalam, and John Wilbanks.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/16/2009 01:12:00 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.
