David Wiley tries to define "open" and concludes the most important freedoms for content are reuse, revision, remix, and redistribution.
The arts and humanities faculty of the University of Buenos Aires passed a resolution condemning the criminal prosecution of an Argentine philosophy professor for allegedly violating copyright by posting the works of Derrida and Heidegger on his Web site.
American publishers praised a plan by the Chinese government "to begin inspections of libraries, to determine whether unauthorized duplication, communication or electronic dissemination of copyrighted [academic and medical] works is occurring".
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/18/2009 10:03:00 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.
