Quirin Schiermeier, Science's next generation finds its own way, Nature, January 13, 2005 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: 'The idea of a global organization of young scientists was first conceived at the 1999 UNESCO World Conference on Science in Budapest, Hungary (see Nature 400, 100; 1999). The creation of WAYS [World Academy of Young Scientists] was then officially announced at 2003's World Science Forum in the Hungarian capital. The group's primary goal, says Gaell Mainguy, a French developmental biologist and the first president of WAYS, is to strengthen the voice of students and young researchers in both science and science-policy discussions at the global level....Candidate projects [for WAYS] include...free online access to scientific literature....Serge Sawadogo, an immunologist from Burkina Faso...plans to build up free online access to journals for science students at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/13/2005 07:46:00 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.
