The UK government is preparing its own version of the US's "data.gov" site, which lets anyone download datasets generated by the US government in various formats and use them as they wish.
Data.gov --unveiled in mid-May-- is intended to give US citizens direct access to non-personal information collected by taxpayer-funded agencies. By dint of having funded the collection, US citizens and organisations are automatically given rights to reuse the data as they wish - including commercially for profit....
Although there is a list of dozens of the UK government's published data sources there is no clear pan-governmental approach to making data available....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/06/2009 11:54:00 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.
