...O is for the Open access rules adopted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, one of Canada's leading research granting institutions. The new rules require researchers to ensure that their work is openly available to the public within six months of publication....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/26/2007 10:27:00 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.
