The Australian government has appointed Brian Fitzgerald to its Government 2.0 Taskforce, which is charged with opening access to non-sensitive government information. Fitzgerald is the head of the Queensland University of Technology Open Access to Knowledge Law Project.
Also see our past posts on Fitzgerald and his OA work, and our post on the launch of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. (Congratulations, Brian!)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/28/2009 01:25:00 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.
