In October, we blogged about the work of a group of Pirate Students in the student union at at the University of Uppsala in drafting a resolution supporting OA. At that time, the Pirate Students had 5 seats in the student union.
In elections this year, the Pirate Students expanded their share to 9 seats, only 1 seat behind the largest party (and the only party to gain seats in the election). From Google's translation of the campaign site:
Pirate Students working for a university which is in keeping with the vision of a free information society. We want knowledge to be as widely available as possible, and therefore seems to the university should use open standards and open publication in terms of software, literature and publishing research results.
In the free information society, no need to purchase a certain program to carry out their studies. Nobody should have to risk prosecution for having copied portions of their literature. Research results will be published directly on the Internet so that everyone has access to them. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/01/2009 05:59:00 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.
