The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched the JHSPH OpenCourseWare project. From the site: 'The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is pleased to welcome you to the initial phase of its pilot OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, providing free and open access to the School's most popular courses to students, self learners, and educators anywhere in the world. We are launching our OCW web site with two courses and expect to publish eight additional courses by April 2005, followed by many more courses in the coming years. Challenges to the world's health escalate daily. As part of its mission to protect health and prevent disease and disability, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.' For more information, see the FAQ.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/15/2005 10:38:00 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.
