Jessie Hey, Targeting Academic Research with Southampton's Institutional Repository, Ariadne, July 2004. Excerpt: "The University of Southampton has been one of the pioneers of open access to academic research, particularly, in the tireless advocacy of Professor Stevan Harnad and in the creation of the EPrints software, as a vehicle for creating open access archives (or repositories) for research....Now that change is happening in earnest with new and varied initiatives appearing so fast in the international arena that it is vital to scan Open Access News regularly to keep up with them....The [UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee] Report recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. It also recommends that Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of their articles in this way....It is useful to compare experiences and the baselines from which other institutions are working." (PS: A profile with very useful numbers and graphics. In my excerpt I couldn't resist quoting the reference to OAN, which I believe is OAN's debut in a peer-reviewed journal.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/30/2004 03:05:00 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.
