JISC and SURF are joining forces to help scholars understand their rights under copyright law and how to use them to their advantage. From JISC's press release, dated today: "The dissemination of scientific information by digital means such as the Internet is a growing trend. It is also expanding possibilities for making information widely accessible at reasonable costs. Present copyright practice, however, often poses obstacles to taking the best possible advantage of such possibilities. To place this issue on the international agenda and to provide practical guidelines to institutions of higher education the JISC and SURF, its counterpart in the Netherlands, have decided to combine forces, budgeting £100,000 (EUR 150,000) for a joint project....The project comprises five parts and will run for a year....[In the fifth part of the project] an analysis will be made of copyright aspects in the Netherlands and United Kingdom with regard to 'Open Access': i.e. the free availability of scientific information over the Internet."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/01/2004 11:37:00 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.
