Donna Wentworth, ESOF 2008: Collaborating for the Future of Open Science (p. 4)
Introducing the Health Commons (p. 5)
Donna Wentworth, Towards Research in a Box (p. 6)
Donna Wentworth, How to Free Your Facts (p. 7)
Donna Wentworth, Science Commons & SPARC Release Guide for Creating Open Access Policies at Institutions (p. 8)
Donna Wentworth, Nguyen on Keeping Data Open & Free (p. 9)
From John Wilbanks' introductory article, Science Commons (p. 3):
...One of the reasons I believe so deeply in the commons approach (by which I mean: contractually constructed regimes that tilt the field towards sharing and reuse, technological enablements that make public knowledge easy to find and use, and default policy rules that create incentives to share and reuse) is that I think it is one of the only non-miraculous ways to defeat complexity. If we can get more people working on individual issues — which are each alone not so complex — and the outputs of research snap together, and smart people can work on the compiled output as well — then it stands to reason that the odds of meaningful discoveries increase in spite of overall systemic complexity....
Complexity is the enemy. Distributed innovation, built on a commons, is a strong tonic against that enemy.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/10/2008 12:47:00 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.
