Access to research data is critical to science, an unsigned note in the European Commission's Research Headlines, April 21, 2004. On the OECD's January 30 Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding. Excerpt: "Unfettered access to data from publicly funded research is crucial to advancing science and the public good. However, inconsistency between governments and within the scientific community hinders the open access ideal, an OECD committee recently concluded....The OECD invites governments to develop a set of guidelines which ensure 'optimal, cost-effective access' to digital research data resulting from publicly funded research."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/20/2004 11:11:00 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.
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.
