Alex Steffen, Averting the next plague, WorldChanging, October 6, 2004. Excerpt: "[P]ublic health experts remind us that any successful model for preventing (or at least containing) such an outbreak [a "major global epidemic"] will have a number of moving parts, many of which are now missing -- greater foreign aid for health care in the developing world, full implementation of international public health agreements and reporting infrastructures, rapid response ability, more open access to scientific information, etc."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/10/2004 10:35:00 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.
