The task force's purview includes "increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding". In addition to recommendations, the task force also has a $2.45 million AUD fund to disburse to new projects. Among the task force's members, notably, are:
Comment. Pardon the pun in this post's title. (Peter leaves me in charge for a week and I start to run wild!)
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/23/2009 11:15:00 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.
