Dave Gershman, U-M wises up to Google, Yahoo, Mlive.com, June 20, 2004 (free registration required). On the Google and Yahoo collaborations with the University of Michigan's OAIster. Excerpt: "After weeks of talks, U-M [University of Michigan] began providing data to Google and Yahoo this spring so Web surfers could begin finding scholarly material that wasn't previously available when using those search engines....U-M is in a position to share data with those two search engines after winning a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to start its own networked search service in June 2002. Called OAIster (pronounced oyster), which stands for Open Archives Initiative, the service began providing access to the online collections of 50 digital academic libraries. Users can pull up images and primary source materials. Now, it provides access to the collections of about 300 libraries."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2004 01:27:00 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.
