Since its release last November, about 2,000 institutions have downloaded DSpace, MIT's open-source software for hosting open-access, OAI-compliant archives. Now MIT has asked six research universities --Columbia, Cornell, Ohio State, Rochester, Toronto, and the University of Washington at Seattle-- to help it test and refine the software, write documentation, and build a critical mass of content in the interoperable member archives. The Mellon Foundation is supporting the consortium, which will be called the DSpace Federation. For details see Dan Carneale's story in the Chronicle of Higher Education or the DSpace press release.
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Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/30/2003 05:12:00 PM.
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.
