AlphaGalileo ("the world's leading resource for European research news") is launching Communiqué, an OA media service to improve the worldwide press coverage of European research. For more details, see the roadmap for the new service, which is still open to user comments.
Comment. While Communiqué will itself be OA, nothing in the roadmap suggests that it will push for OA to the primary literature and data themselves. But nothing in the roadmap rules that out either. European scientists may want to send comments to AlphaGalileo pointing out that OA to research would advance all the goals of the new service, including the press coverage of the same research. For a good example of how OA to research helps science journalists, not just scientists, see yesterday's blog posting on Steve Jones' story in the Telegraph.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/18/2006 11:54:00 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.
