The Open Society Institute (OSI) has issued a call for proposals for its 2006-2007 International Policy Fellowship program. OSI will fund policy fellows from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East to work in any of five areas. Here's how it describes one of them: 'Open Content & Sustainability. Open Access publishing is revolutionizing scientific publishing. New alternative licensing systems like Creative Commons support decentralized information production, by making it easier for creators to share and permit re-use and modification of their work, while retaining certain rights. What are the business models that are developing around these commons-based models of sharing freely online? These cases are by and large un-documented and seem to contrast starkly with well-established economic and legal norms that rest on notions of scarcity, exclusivity and controlled access.' Proposals are due by September 20.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/31/2005 01:31:00 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.
