The December 2004 issue of Briefings in Bioinformatics features two articles that mention open access resources for the bioinformatics community. Unfortunately, the articles are not open access, but available with a subscription or per-article purchase through Ingenta. Mauro Vihinen, in Signal transduction-related bioinformatics services (pp.325-331,) reviews "open-access databases and software" available to the cellular signalling research community. And Rodrigo Lopez et al, in Public services from the European Bioinformatics Institute (pp.332-340), review the EBI's free services to the scientific community, especially database searches and software, all of which are available on the Institute's website.
Posted by
Garrett at 2/05/2004 05:37:00 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.
