As some may know, WIPO's Committee on Development and IP is meeting in Geneva this week, 16-20 November 2009, to work on the establishment of a work plan to implement the WIPO Development Agenda. Following is EFF's statement delivered to CDIP 4 this afternoon. ...
WIPO could undertake ... a survey of the various Open and Public Access policies being considered in the US, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Canada, to assist Member States to identify how the outputs of publicly funded research could be managed to best promote innovation in science and education. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/16/2009 04:28:00 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.
