Jill O'Neill, Barbara Bauldock, and Bonnie Lawlor, MetaDiversity III: Global Access for Biodiversity Through Integrated Systems, NFAIS, April 2004. A summary of findings from the third in a series of symposia sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and NFAIS. Excerpt: "The goal of these ambitious interactive workshops
has been to identify, discuss, and resolve challenges facing the biodiversity research community in their efforts to create a global information resource." Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the proposals for this global resource would make it OA, and many of the projects that would form its components are already OA.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/07/2004 04:04:00 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.
