Bundesforschungsministerium kritisiert Urheberrechtsnovelle, Heise Online, December 15, 2004. An unsigned news story. Wolf-Michael Catenhusen, undersecretary of the German Ministry of Education and Research, has endorsed open access for German science, and wants to support it with publicly-funded grants. However, he does not want the government to play the role of Central Digital Library. Catenhusen also criticized proposals for German copyright reform on the ground that they did not recognize the special needs of education, research, and science. (Thanks to MedInfo via Oliver Obst.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/16/2004 09:18:00 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.
