Seung Yoin Rhee, Carpe Diem. Retooling the "Publish or Perish" Model into the "Share and Survive" Model, Plant Physiology 134, 543-547 (2004). Rhee discusses the growth of biological data repositories and their role in the dissemination and preservation of scientific knowledge. "What is needed" he writes "is a seamless connection of community databases, public repositories and journals. This should facilitate free access to raw data (public repositories), aggregations of interconnected and annotated information (community databases), and thorough analyses and interpretation of experimental data (journal articles). Rhee focuses particularly on community databases, arguing that contributions to such projects "should have at least as much impact toward advancing science as publishing in journals," and should hold as much weight in academia. Rhee goes on to discuss how databases function for specific scientific communities, the technical standards and protocols needed to support them, the need for funding and international agreements to share data freely, and the importance of cooperation between researchers, institutions, publishers, associations and funding agencies.
Posted by
Garrett at 6/15/2004 10:26:00 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.
