The University of Tasmania has given Arthur Sale its 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Community Engagement. In the citation, it makes special mention of his work on behalf of open access:
You are also an internationally recognised and respected contributor to the debate around free access to publicly funded research through the Open Access movement....
If that sentence needs any proof, here it is: I can post this news on this blog and count of my regular readers to understand that the award is well-deserved. Congratulations, Arthur!
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/15/2006 05:43:00 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.
