OA, writes Richard Grant, is socialism -- provoking a 150+ comment discussion. Apparently not all of his readers agree.
Christopher Kelty thinks that Kickstarter, a "funding platform" where supporters pledge to support a project before production, could be a revenue model for OA.
Libraries, writes Barbara Fister, "have to figure out how to stop equating the price tag with our actual worth, roll up our sleeves, and find interesting new ways to make good information freely available."
The aim of open approaches in science "isn't to replicate 'open source' as we know it in software," writes John Wilbanks, but "to create the essential foundations for distributed science".
Our spiritual cousins at Open Education News passed the 1,000 post milestone this week.
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/30/2009 06:43:00 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.
