... Despite the best efforts of the open access movement, digging deeper for specific research information, for example, reveals many reports and articles to be much less accessible than we would hope ...
It's up to each of us and our organizations to examine how truly available, accessible and applicable our own information, data and knowledge really are ... and to work with others to ensure that agricultural knowledge does not remain on the shelf, in our heads, or stuck on an intranet! ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/05/2009 06:27:00 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.
