An unsigned column, "Industry and government must adopt open-source methods in the life sciences," Acumen v.1, no.3 (Sept. 2003), discusses how intellectual property protections may hamper research and points to an "emerging life sciences" open source movement, citing such examples as "the Human Genome Project, the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and the Public Library of Science." The column references an article in the same issue, Common Property, which reportedly covers these topics more in depth, but only the introductory paragraphs are available online.
Posted by
Garrett at 1/21/2004 02:11:00 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.
