In a press release last month, Bioinformatics Organization (a.k.a. Bioniformatics.org) annouced five nominees for its 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award, honoring "an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the scientific field of bioinformatics." The award will be presented at the organization's "Fourth Annual Meeting ... held in conjunction with the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, Boston, Massachusetts, March 30 to April 1, 2004." Previous honorees include James Kent in 2003 and Michael Eisen in 2002.
Posted by
Garrett at 2/03/2004 12:29:00 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.
