On December 4, the National Science Board released its draft report on Science and Engineering Infrastructure For the 21st Century [a .doc file]. It welcomes public comment on the draft until January 9. (Thanks to the CNI-Announce list.) Excerpt from the executive summary: "Recent concepts of infrastructure are expanding to include distributed systems of hardware, software, information bases, and automated aids for data analysis and interpretation. Enabled by information technology, a qualitatively different and new S&E infrastructure has evolved, delivering greater computational power, increased access, distribution and shared-use, and new research tools, such as data analysis and interpretation aids, web-accessible databases, archives, and collaboratories. Many viable research questions can be answered only through the use of new generations of these powerful tools." (PS: One suggestion: distribute important documents online in a more open and inviting format like HTML or even PDF.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/19/2002 06:10:00 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.
