The Open Knowledge Commons received $1.5 million to digitize 30,000 volumes of public domain medical literature.
SURFshare is accepting nominations for its Open Access Award, with a prize each for outstanding strategic and practical contributions to OA in the Netherlands.
"Publishers are allowed to get away with keeping science closed, holding it back, and wasting public money," says Joe Dunckley, "because there are still sufficient numbers of scientists who let them".
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 12/24/2009 07:28:00 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.
