Pierre Baruch, Franck Laloë, and Françoise Praderie, La science, c'est aussi de la culture, Le Monde, January 12, 2006 (in French). (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) French copyright reforms designed to crack down on file-sharing in music will inadvertently harm science; exceptions in the existing law for research and education are not enforced; and media discussion focuses on music to exclusion of other affected areas of culture.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/12/2006 01:48:00 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.
