FCC Chairman Rejects Skype Petition

The Federal Communications Commission should reject a petition by eBay Inc.'s Skype division to require wireless operators to allow any device on their networks, the agency's chairman said Tuesday.

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Q&A About Verizon's New Open Network

Verizon Wireless picked up coveted wireless airwaves at a recent auction held by the Federal Communications Commission, which imposed certain consumer-friendly provisions on how that network can be used and what it will it eventually look like.

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Open Wireless Network May Not Be So Open

With its winning $4.7 billion bid last week, Verizon Wireless didn't just stake claim to beachfront wireless property, it also grabbed control of the guest list to the open-access party.

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FCC eyes open access after backing away from regulation in 2001 and 2002

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"Titled 'Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government' and chaired by Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat. it focused on an issue ignored by the presidential contenders that has deeply weakened our rule of law."

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Congratulations to LibriVox, who've just released their 1,000th public domain audio book! Previously featured on this site, LibriVox has been a consistent supporter of access to open content by building a digital library of free public domain audio books.

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An anonymous Email that was circulated on October 10 calls into question the practices of the non-profit publishing giant, the American Chemical Society (ACS), which has long been under scrutiny.

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The FCC has set the rules for the auction of soon to be vacated VHF and UHF television frequencies. Google has been slapped back on their demands for the auction. Interesting to see how this plays out.

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A soft-spoken Kevin Martin brought two phones to today's FCC open meeting at which the agency presented the rules for its upcoming 700MHz auction. Both phones were made by Nokia, but the European version allowed access to WiFi networks; the American version did not.

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By: Bruce Byfield The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is a hybrid of two philosophical trends in technology: the well-known free and open source software movement, and the open access movement, whose goal is to provide free online access to scholarly research.

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Sign this petition to register your support for free and open access to research funded by the U.S. Federal government.

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The $10 billion science publishing industry hasn't heard the last of a bill that would make publicly funded studies available for free. Sen.

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Stop Microsoft from buying the BBC

This is a link to a very dry and probably boring to some consultation paper, which the BBC has opened up to us, the license fee payers, on how to best proceed with a new on-demand, internet based content delivery system.

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An open access/free PLoS Biology article by the science writer Tabitha M.

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In many countries with large Muslim populations the pendulum of power is swinging away from secular (but mostly undemocratic) government back to where it was for many centuries: to Islamist regimes, and Islamic law.

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Online open access/free first edition of Phillip E.

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From Astrobiology.com: The Astrobiology Primer (Version 1) has been created as a reference tool for those who are interested in the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology.

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Open access online edition (with illustrations) of Professor Stephen William Hawking's "A Brief History Of Time" (Amazon UK | US):Book Contents:Chapter 1 - Our Picture of the Universe Chapter 2 - Space and Time Chapter 3 - The Expanding Universe Chapter 4 - The Uncertainty P …

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Scientists revealed today that a prolific parasite is helping shape the destiny of a species it does not even infect.

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Nobel Prize for Medicine: RNA Interference - Open Access to Papers and Animation

The journal Nature is providing open access to a 'web focus' on RNA Interference (click here): Cells utilize RNA interference (RNAi) to regulate protein expression in many contexts.

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From the Washington Post (2-page article):  Alas, poor Coelophysis! We thought we knew him well.Birdlike dinosaur.Prehistoric inhabitant of New Mexico.And above all, a cannibal.

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Online Science Resource: Directory of Open Access Journals

From the Front Page: Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2401 journals in the directory.

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How will the open access movement affect global science?

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The Royal Society: Open Access to 'Over 340 years of landmark science' until December 2007

The complete archive of the Royal Society journals, including some of the most significant scientific papers ever published since 1665, is to be made freely available electronically for the first time today (14th September 2006) for a two month period.

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Senator John Kerry: I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.

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The world's oldest learned society will today tear up its 340-year-old business model with the launch of an open access journal allowing people to read its new scientific papers free of charge.

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"Until recently there has been a lack of data to support whether an open access model would result in cost effective dissemination of research," commented Martin Richardson, Managing Director, Oxford Journals

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An article in reference to the apparent fact that open access articles increase your chances of citation. Particularly in reference to scientific articles, but it would make sense that this would generally be the case.

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