Mapping Knowledge Domains is a special supplement to the April 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Many of the articles raise OA issues, either by tracking OA collections or making use of OA literature as data to learn about scientific trends. Only the TOC and abstracts are free online, at least so far. However, the articles in this supplement are the proceedings of a year-old conference, Mapping Knowledge Domains (Irvine, California, May 9-11, 2003). If you don't have a PNAS subscription, the conference web site has links to PPT slides and webcasts. If you want more than that, then see the detailed
press release, summarizing many of the articles.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/07/2004 11:21:00 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.
