The OCLC Members Council discussed expanding access to information at its annual meeting this year (May 23-25). Ann Wolpert, the Director of Libraries at MIT, spoke about institutional repositories and DSpace. Excerpt from the OCLC press release: "Ms. Wolpert said that faculty and administrators are recognizing the benefits of implementing institutional repositories. She noted that digitally accessible information is statistically demonstrated to be used 10 times more often than print. 'So faculty have a tremendous incentive to move their content onto the Web because they know it is going to be read on the Web,' she said. 'There are really compelling reasons for provosts and presidents of academic institutions to make an institutional repository a priority in terms of making a statement about how innovative an organization is, or the depth and breadth of its intellectual content.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/22/2004 07:40:00 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.
