Carlo Vinicio Caballero, et al., La importancia del Acceso Abierto en la investigación biomédica y científica, Revista Colombiana de Reumatología, June 2008. (Thanks to PANLAR Bulletin Online.) English abstract:
The Access to the information of high quality, of first class and free entry about medical present topics and scientific knowledge of social importance, makes the Open Access (OA) a fundamental tool in the medical community in the world and Latin America. Open access is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material primarily research articles published in peerreviewed journals. OA means that any individual user, anywhere, who has access to the internet, may link, read, download, store, print-off, use, and datamine the digital content of that article. An OA article usually has limited copyright and licensing restrictions. The OA is a powerful source of information and great social impact in Latin America because the benefits, the accessibility and economical advantages that raises in the zone.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/19/2009 03:15:00 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.
