... Four members of the EOS Board will be attending the invitation-only conference hosted by the European Commission this week in Brussels. The conference is called 'Working Together to Strengthen Research in Europe'. There is a morning session on Open Access on Thursday 22 October. Its remit is to come up with recommendations for policies on Open Access that the Commission can take forward. With Sijbolt Noorda as one of the panel speakers and Bernard Rentier and Keith Jeffery invited participants, some good outputs are assured. Alma Swan is in the chair. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/19/2009 05:36:00 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.
