A new JISC study finds that "students expect research content to be immediately accessible, ideally online" and recommends OA as a response.
Rufus Pollock shares a work in progress on patterns of knowledge production, where he wonders, "Do different policies (for example openness vs. closedness — weak vs. strong IP) have implications for the structure of production and hence for output and productivity?"
Across the pond, the EU Publications Office has made 110,000 documents OA: "all publications ever edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU ... since 1952".
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/16/2009 06:25:00 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.
