The Alliance for Taxpayer Access will hold a press briefing tomorrow (11/11) in Washington DC to present the patients' voice on the NIH OA plan. From today's press release: "Patient advocates and public interest groups are increasingly concerned that their voices are being left out of this critical dialogue between government and giant publishing interests at the sacrifice of legitimate citizen input, public health priorities and the urgency to advance the discoveries of biomedical research. This briefing will highlight the stories, concerns and needs of patient advocates and public interest groups in this important science dialogue." Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance, Pat Furlong of the Parent Access Project for Muscular Dystrophy, and Rick Johnson of SPARC will speak at the briefing.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/10/2004 10:06:00 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.
