Our new report, The Commons Rising, has been posted here...for a little bit, but now we are officially anouncing and releasing the paper version of it. For those of you who have not checked it out, I invite you to download the [OA] 24-page report. (For hard copies, contact Kathleen Maloney at tbicoordinator@tomales.org.) The report was written by my colleagues Peter Barnes, Jonathan Rowe and me.
The Commons Rising is about the profusion of commons initiatives that are defending and invigorating the commons in all sorts of arenas -- the Internet, natural resources, public spaces, information and culture. We can see the "commons rising" in collaborativge websites and ecosystem trusts; in innovative legal tools such as conservation easements and Creative Commons licenses; in new types of social networks such as community gardens and time banks; and in new online communities such as Wikipedia, free and open source software, Craigslist and open science initiatives. The report celebrates these efforts and calls upon Americans to scale them up....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2006 09:06:00 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.
