A UK-based Open Rights Group launched on September 6. From the site:
The Open Rights Group is committed to protecting your digital rights, to fighting bad legislation both in the UK and Europe, and to fostering a grassroots community of volunteers dedicated to campaigning on digital rights issues. Your civil and human rights are being eroded in the digital realm. Government, big business and industry bodies are taking liberties with your digital liberties, actions they could never get away with in the "real" world. Our goals are: [1] to raise awareness within the media of digital rights abuses, [2] to provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts and activists, [3] to campaign to preserve and extend traditional civil liberties in the digital world, [4] to collaborate with other digital rights and related organisations, [5] to nurture and assist a community of campaigning volunteers, from grassroots activists to technical and legal experts.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/08/2005 09:13:00 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.
