Karen Dearne, BIOS to break biology's tech barrier, News.com.au, October 5, 2004. Excerpt: "Biologists are launching an open source movement to break the stranglehold of large corporations that dominate the biotech field and put vital science research tools into the public domain. The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative, funded by a $US1 million ($1.3 million) grant from the Rockefeller Foundation announced last week, aims to make technology more readily available to biologists everywhere. BIOS supporters say the latest genetics and biology tools should be freely available to researchers over the internet, but instead access is typically restricted by commercial patents and prohibitive licensing fees."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/04/2004 08:00:00 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.
