Michelle Keller, Profit, patents and progress, The Stanford Daily, January 4, 2005. Excerpt: 'On Saturday, Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to offering flexible copyrights for creative works, launched Science Commons, designed to ease the sharing of scientific research and datasets....Science Commons will help authors publish work online with licenses based on the Creative Commons copyright licenses, allowing researchers to publish in multiple journals, post up their work on their own Web site and share raw datasets....[While patents and copyrights can encourage innovation, they] can also hinder innovation, making it difficult for other researchers to access articles and utilize data....Science Commons offers an alternative to completely dropping journals, offering researchers an opportunity to publish Open Access material, which has more flexible copyrights, and is often free and available online. "I'd expect our involvement in this area to mirror our work elsewhere," [John] Wilbanks [new director of Science Commons] explained. "When a group in the community — be they an Open Access journal or a major publisher, needs to share a document — we want to make sure there's a Science Commons license that lets them share." '
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/04/2005 09:23:00 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.
