[o'reilly on open access publishing]

Working on a report for the IOCT which suggests our next steps in terms of our transdisciplinary journal and future publishing efforts, I've been researching ideas of open access and new models/methods of publishing. Looking beyond academic (which seems to be moving slowly...) to business and there are loads of innovative ideas and changes in publishing practise.

Our "fundamental mission" as O'Reilly says, it to pass on information...so "why would we want to lock it up?" Good question.



Tim O'Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing @ TOC 2009 from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo.

Read Danah Boyd's interesting post on boycotting locked-down journals.