The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) is a major OA project from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. The caBIG pilot was announced last July but the grid itself is now nearly ready for public use. Quoting yesterday's press release: caBIG "is an open-source, open-access, voluntary information network that will enable cancer researchers to share tools, standards, data, applications, and technologies according to agreed upon common standards and needs. caBIG will create an informatics infrastructure that will link teams of cancer and biomedical researchers as part of a collaborative network, or grid....caBIG is a unique and ambitious undertaking, as no known precedent exists for a bioinformatics engineering initiative of this scale. The National Cancer Institute envisions that caBIG will become 'the World Wide Web of cancer research.' Researchers from around the world will have open access to the common platform of caBIG, be able to use common tools, and rapidly convert, relate, and analyze data from different sources." For more details, see the FAQs or the caBIG Interactive Overview.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/10/2004 09:45:00 AM.
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.
