Open-source and free-reuse without open-access. This is the new stub of an article posted to Copyright (the journal). The topic seems to be the contrast between OA to data and lack of OA to articles, but the exact topic should come into sharper focus as the article grows.
If you remember, one of the innovations of Copyright is that it allows authors to start wiki-based articles hosted by the journal and open to contributions from anyone. When the articles are finished, the journal will subject them to peer review and consider them for publication, but does not promise to publish them. If it publishes a wiki-gestated article, it will list as authors all who made a "significant contribution" and who provided their real name and institutional affiliation. For an example of an OA-related article close to the end of the gestation process, see Open Access and Reputation, whose significant contributors (so far) are Jim Till and Ari Friedman.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/16/2006 12:59:00 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.
