On December 2, Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) published a report on the ARROW Project (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World). Excerpt: "The ARROW project (ARROW) will identify and test a software solution or solutions to support best-practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing....The National Library of Australia will develop a repository and associated metadata to support independent scholars (those not associated with institutions). A complementary activity of ARROW is the development and testing of national resource discovery services (developed by the National Library) using metadata harvested from the institutional repositories, and the exposing of metadata to provide services via protocols and toolkits." (Thanks to Charles Bailey's Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2003 09:12:00 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.
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.
