Following the call for cooperation call which presented the participatory, open, and commons movement as a ‘three-legged stool’, we received two responses.
One in the comments area, presented the newsblog open dot dot dot
Peter Suber, one of the driving forces behind the open access movement send us a list of links to discover:
Open Access Overview: my introduction to OA for those who are new to the concept
Very Brief Introduction to Open Access: like the above, but prints on just one page
Open Access News blog: my blog, updated daily
and more here at:
SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm
(my newsletter, published monthly)
Writings on Open Access
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/oawritings.htm
(my articles on OA)
Timeline of the open access movement
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
(my chronology of the landmark events)
Just trying to relate Intellectual Contributions to OA. Peter Suber says about OA:
“The campaign for OA focuses on literature that authors give to the world without expectation of payment.” however “Scholars write journal articles because advancing knowledge in their fields advances their careers. They write for impact, not for money.” and “…subject to proper attribution of authorship….”
Although the Rights Office and Intellectual Contributions proposal considers monetary reward an important aspect for many authors and creators it does not insist on this. The RO system does, however, insist on persistent identification of ‘attribution and authorship’ and provides this in a self-regulating fashion as a work enters the commons.
By the way, the Intellectual Contributions model also considers ‘review’ as a contribution to the work.