Google has a "partial list" of open-access, full-text research articles written by current employees. The purpose is to woo new talent. But why not call it an institutional repository, make it OAI-compliant, and aim to make it complete? That would do at least as much to woo new talent. It would also benefit the old talent and serve everyone who conducts research on the same topics. For-profit companies will always generate proprietary research that they will not want to disclose. But when the company doesn't want to keep employee research secret or sell it, then why not OA? When companies employ scientists who publish research, then why not showcase their work and help the world at the same time? (Thanks to ResearchBuzz.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/02/2005 01:33:00 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.
