A Nature news article, Biologists launch 'open-source movement', and editorial (access restricted to subscribers) herald a program that sounds like a Creative Commons for biologists: Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS). "The initiative's first activities will be to gather a portfolio of research tools that can be used for free and to construct an easy-to-use database of patent information. It will also provide templates of licensing agreements for scientists who want to make their technologies freely available. In turn, users will be obliged to freely release innovations based on these techniques." The initative is supported by a $1,000,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Posted by
Garrett at 9/29/2004 03:22:00 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.
