In its December issue, Scientific American will announce the 50 award-winners in this year's Scientific American 50. The issue is not out yet, but Mercury News has learned that Pat Brown and Mike Eisen of Public Library of Science will be named "for championing open access to scientific and medical research." Congratulations to Pat, Mike, and everyone at PLoS.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/14/2005 10:37:00 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.
