Francis Muguet, Activity Report, October 24, 2003. A revealing, first-hand account of why open access is less prominently mentioned in the final documents of PrepCom3 (Geneva, September 15-26) than it was in earlier drafts. Muguet is the chair of the Scientific Information Working Group for the World Summit on the Information Society. (Disclosure: I'm on the steering committee of the working group but couldn't attend the September meeting.) He was on the ground in Geneva last month fighting tirelessly for open access. This is his report of the obstacles and inertia he faced and the outcome so far.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/23/2003 10:22:00 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.
