David Dickson, UN meeting urged to back open access science, SciDev.Net, December 7, 2003. Francis Muguet is working for a strong and clear endorsement of open access from next week's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. The alternative is a statement endorsing only "equitable access", a feel-good phrase with no particular meaning. (Full disclosure: Muguet is chairman of the WSIS Scientific Information Working Group, of which I am a member of the steering committee. I support and assist his efforts.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/07/2003 06:03:00 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.
