The NeuroCommons is a proving ground for the ideas behind Science Commons: open legal contracts and Open Access literature, advanced use of open-standards Semantic Web technology, and the construction of an open community involving all the stakeholders in scientific funding, research, and publishing....It represents an integrated testbed for Science Commons' work in Publishing and Licensing as well as the first investment in our efforts to create a Science Commons by a private company. NeuroCommons will: [1] Use freely available literature and databases to make scientific knowledge, descriptions of biological materials, and data sets easier to use and find - we will connect a graph of neurological information and publish it in Semantic Web standard formats. [2] Provide a web-based infrastructure for search, community-driven additions, and annotations. [3] Lower the legal and technical barriers to finding and sharing knowledge and tools in the neurosciences.
Update. Also see Teranode's press release (December 12, 2005).
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/12/2005 09:23:00 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.
