Meredith Salisbury, Killing the Copyright, GenomeWeb News, October 22, 2003. On the Sabo bill, and the passionate support and opposition it has triggered among scientists and scientific organizations. Salisbury endorses improved access, probably including open access, but thinks critics of the bill have good questions about its scope --questions that careful drafting could have answered. "Perhaps the good thing that will come from it now is the debate it's sparked on how best to arrange for public access, since nearly everyone agrees that that's a good cause."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2003 05:31:00 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.
