Robert Barr has been made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth "for services to geography". Barr is a professor of geography at Manchester University, managing director of Manchester Geomatics, and advocate for OA to public geodata in the UK. (Thanks to Free Our Data.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/01/2008 12:19:00 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.
