Gautam, Everything you always wanted to know about OA, but were afraid someone had already answered is at Peter Suber's site:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ He is The Authority. The current scene is very complex, and mixed up with all kinds of ideologies about print vs. digital, post vs. pre-publication peer review and the role of scholarly societies whose existence in some cases (like my own anthropology association) depends on a broken publishing business model. I'd be happy to help with specific questions as you go... ck On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:16:12AM +0530, Gautam John wrote: > Hello Hive-Mind: > > I'm writing a brief position paper on Open Access to Knowledge/Books > to catalyse and crystallise some internal and external thinking on the > idea. > > As it stands, the broad outline of this paper is such: > > Genesis of Open Access > - Historical > - Well Known Models > -- Wiki > -- CC > > What Does CC Mean > - Legally > - Operationally > > Does OA Yield Larger Results > - Data > > Societal Impact > - No Loss of Revenue > - How Do IP Holders Benefit > > I was hoping you could send me your thoughts and comments on this > framework and pointers to any references that you might have > bookmarked. > > Cheers! > > -Gautam >
