To many of you this may seem like bureaucratic bickering and power struggles of an academic elite, and to some extent it is. How it affects you, as I've outlined before, is that our tax payer money that goes towards research, and cultural resource management is effectively being funnelled into the private pockets. When the AAA opposed compliance to open access to federally funded research, they in effect were taking all the artifacts and manuscripts of our collective knowledge and keeping it to themselves.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/08/2006 09:13:00 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.
