Film-maker Mickey Grant has decided to provide OA to his 82-minute 2003 documentary on the doctor and five nurses (the Tripoli Six) who have been imprisoned and tortured by Libyan government since 1999 and now may face execution on fraudulent charges of deliberately infecting 400 Libyan children with HIV.
PS: Declan Butler of Nature has been doing heroic work to mobilize bloggers to create international pressure to free the Tripoli Six. I'm glad to have this OA hook to join the campaign. Read the documents to which Declan links and spread the word.
Update. SciDev.Net for September 27, 2006, has a good article on the case, showing the evidence for the medics' innocence and the political sensitivities that may nevertheless lead to their conviction and execution.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/26/2006 09:37:00 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.
