The University of Southern California has awarded the 2007 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement to Gatze Lettinga, a Dutch scientist who invented an anaerobic wastewater treatment in the 1970s and who, by choosing not to patent his work, has strived to make it available all over the world. The technology is now used in three-quarters of the world’s anaerobic systems for treating industrial and residential wastewater....
PS: Unlike Lettinga, scholars who provide OA to their peer-reviewed journal articles give up no actual or potential revenue. The reason, of course, is that scholarly journals don't buy articles from authors and don't pay royalties. Lettinga is heroic, but we should all be glad that OA doesn't require heroism.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/22/2007 05:43:00 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.
