Katie Dean, BBC to Open Content Floodgates, Wired News, June 16, 2004. Excerpt: "The British Broadcasting Corporation's Creative Archive, one of the most ambitious free digital content projects to date, is set to launch this fall with thousands of three-minute clips of nature programming. The effort could goad other organizations to share their professionally produced content with Web users....The BBC archive would only be available to British citizens who pay the yearly TV license fee. Anyone who tries to visit the site through a foreign IP address won't be allowed to log on." (PS: This won't be true OA because it won't be open to everyone with an internet connection. However, it will live up to the principle that taxpayers should have free access to taxpayer-funded content. Kudos to the BBC for making this decision. It's not clear that the government would ever have done so. Now it's time to implement the same policy for taxpayer-funded research.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/16/2004 09:36:00 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.
