NECOBELAC (Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin American-Caribbean Countries) is conducting a survey to inform the project's strategic planning. The survey is soliciting responses from researchers, research funders, publishers, and librarians in the NECOBELAC countries, and will be open for responses until November 30.
Researcher Jocelyn Tomkinson suggests OA as a counter-balance to poor media reporting of science -- but also finds that, in one case where reporting did link to the OA source article, most online commenters didn't bother to read it.
Amazon, in settling a lawsuit related to remotely deleting texts from its customers' Kindle devices without their permission, agreed to limits on such deletions in the future. Under the agreement, Amazon will only remotely delete customers' downloads without their permission in cases of court order or security concerns, or where the customer asks for a refund or fails to pay for the download.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/05/2009 01:45:00 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.
