...There is a clear synergistic relationship between the open access (and related ideas of open data and open science) and Web 2.0. At a trivial level, for instance, a blog commenting on a published paper presupposes access to that paper. Institutional repositories, as a platform for sharing scholarly content, could (perhaps should) be very “Web 2.0” in their design philosophy (although in practice they are not). At a much deeper level, the Web 2.0 culture of content purposing and re-use is much harder to realise within a non-open access environment. One of the arguments in favour of open access is that it facilitates the creation of new services and new knowledge through data mining and data mashups of the published literature....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/14/2009 02:56:00 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.
