Barbara Cohen, PLoS Biology in Action, PLoS Biology, January 2004. How the OA articles in PLoS Biology have already been used and how they can be used. Articles have been downloaded, modified and added to online encyclopedias where they are open to further modification, translated into other languages, and printed or transferred to CD-ROM for users without connectivity. All this is already permitted by the journal's Creative Commons license, so that users needn't wast time asking permission or pay fees to obtain it. Still to come: PLoS will work with software developers to produce tools for text- and data-mining of the XML versions of its articles.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2004 08:14:00 AM.
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.
