Glyn Moody (from open… blog) covered the creation of a set of Panton Principles for open science data. The principles advise how scientific data should be used and shared in order for the scientific process to function effectively. I have covered open science before here. Check out Glyn’s whole post on open… here.
Category: Open Access
Open science – Panton principles for sharing scientific data
Posted by – February 22, 2010
University of Ottawa announces open access policy
Posted by – December 8, 2009
T
he University of Ottawa took bold steps towards opening up its wealth of academic knowledge to the world today, announcing a new open access policy that is the first of its kind among Canadian universities. Ottawa U will now join the ranks of highly-respected schools such as Berkeley, Cornell, MIT and Harvard.
From the Ottawa U Website, an explanation of what open access will mean:
• a commitment to make the University’s scholarly publications available online at no charge through the University’s repository, uO Research;
• an author fund to help researchers defray open access fees charged by publishers;
• a fund to support the creation of digital educational materials organized as courses and available to everyone online at no charge ;
• support for the University of Ottawa Press’s commitment to publishing a collection of open access books; and
• a research grant to support further research on the open access movement.
I have talked about the merits of open access before and I hope other Canadian schools soon follow suit. For the full press release from the University of Ottawa, go here.