Today marks the start of the International Workshop on Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in Beijing (June 22-24). It's a good sign that the keynote address by Cheng Jinpei, China's Vice Minister of Science and Technology and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has already been reported in the Chinese press. Excerpt from a story in today's China View: "Cheng Jinpei said here Tuesday that the ministry isspeeding up a scientific data sharing project in an effort to reduce repeated research and money squandering....The Chinese government has already placed the scientific data sharing project as one important job for building the national scientific and technological research infrastructure, Cheng said, adding that his ministry will go all out to build up and improve the project. Experts said that scientific data are not only strategic resources for research community, but also key information for governmental decision making. Most of the scientific data in China are still not digitized and open access to those resources are limited, the experts said."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2004 08:31:00 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.
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.
