Blogshares is a simulated stock market in which investors use imaginary money to buy and sell imaginary shares in real blogs. The blogs gain value from incoming links, and give value through outgoing links. The results give one kind of perspective on the value of the blogs. In the libraries sector of the Blogshares market, Open Access News ranks fourth in value. (Thanks to The Industrial Librarian.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/15/2005 02:29:00 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.
