Jeff Kosseff, Q&A with Paul Allen, The Oregonian, September 27, 2006. Excerpt:
[Q] How did the decision come about to put all of the data [for the Allen Brain Atlas] online, make it public? Did you consider licensing it and selling it for research?
[A] We did talk about that in the early days. But if you want to have maximum impact, if you want researchers at drug companies to also benefit from what you're doing -- and they're reluctant to use anything that has encumbrances on it -- and you want this available to any scientist worldwide, we quickly made the decision to have open access.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/27/2006 08:17:00 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.
