While I'm sure the people at the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) are supportive of any initiative to get research into the public sphere, I'm sure they would be surprisaed to learn that MIT's new Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) initiative is "a first-of-its kind collaboration between a leading publisher and a world-class academic lab to transform how research information is created and shared." Maybe MIT means "first in the US" or perhaps "first at MIT". After all, PKP has been opening access with projects like Open Journal Systems since 1998. Anyhow, this article describes some KFG like PubPub, an open authoring and publishing platform, and Underlay, an open, distributed knowledge store. These are worthy projects. But don't say these are world firsts. It gets old.
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