On February 29, the comment period closed on the Medical Research Council's call for comments on how or in what form it should promote open access. The MRC is the largest public funder of medical research in the UK, analogous to the NIH in the U.S. In the preface to its current policy, the MRC says, "We see it as our duty to encourage all those whom we support to make the results of all their research publicly available." (PS: I'm sorry I didn't know about this call for comments while it was still open.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/09/2004 08:24:00 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.
