Philip Ball, The common good, news@nature.com, August 20, 2004. Ball considers open projects spearheaded by volunteers, such as the SETI@HOME distributed computing initiative and Project Gutenberg. Could the same approach be applied to scientific problems, scientific publishing and peer review?
Posted by
Garrett at 8/25/2004 01:52:00 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.
