DARE (Digital Academic Repositories) is a new Dutch initiative to increase the visibility, accessiblity and impact of research literature by Dutch scientists. All Dutch universities will participate in making their research output digitally accessible in an OAI-compliant form. The project is funded by the Dutch government, administered by SURF (a Dutch ICT organization for higher education), and sponsored by the Royal Library, the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. JISC is a partner. See the DARE press release. (PS: I believe this is the first nationally-coordinated program to insure open access to a national body of research literature.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/12/2002 11:08:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
