Today the Australian government gave a network of institutions $12 million to improve Australia's research infrastructure. Four major projects will share the funds: (1) Meta Access Management System Project (MAMS), (2) Towards an Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR), (3) The Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), and (4) Australian Digital Theses Program Expansion and Redevelopment (ADT). All four, but especially the last three, will greatly accelerate the implementation of open access in Australia. Kudos to the visionary Australian Department for Education, Science and Training, which awarded the grant.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2003 08:06:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
