Kristian W. Fried and Dieter Lenoir, EPA Environmental Science Database: Not Only for Americans, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 43(20), 2597 (2004). (Accessible only to subscribers.) Fried and Lenoir review the EPA Science Inventory database, freely accessible to the public since November 2003. (See earlier blog posting.) They also point out the interconnectivity between the EPA site and other U.S. government chemical and toxicological databases and herald a forthcoming (pending ratification_ European Union chemical database: REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals). Mainly, Fried and Lenoir contend that the EPA databases benefit scientists around the globe, not just in the U.S.
Posted by
Garrett at 5/06/2004 12:11:00 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.
