John S. James, Improving AIDS conferences with online information, AIDS Treatment News no.398, 7-8 (27 Feb 2004). In order to improve the ability for scientists to make crucial connections at conferences, James suggests that less time at the actual event be taken up with presentations, which could be posted online prior to the meeting. The author also points out the following potential benefit:
"Such a conference would be open to the whole world's scientific communities and other interested groups -- including the great majority of people who cannot fly to that particular city for the meeting. Working relationships could develop remotely as well as face to face."
Posted by
Garrett at 5/14/2004 11:50:00 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.
