This article [by Mark Lewis in The Guardian] prompted me to muse on what frameworks we did need if we hoped to move the world forward, just a little bit....[Paraphrasing Nelson Mandela:] "Bringing together academic research and the practice of the world of business, work, entrepreneurship and development, he argued, would benignly steer both global corporate power and academic inquiry towards health, education and peace."...How short can we make the list? So far I have: [1] Open access to information - The Internet, Freedom of Information, Open Source, that kind of thing..., [2] An "evidence-based" culture - we know it works, we've got the science/metrics/evidence to prove it..., [3] The Principle of Charity - essentially a viewpoint that considers others..., [4] A little effort and a lot of patience....
Omissions, deletions? I'm open to suggestions.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/30/2005 10:43:00 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.
