Dan Carnevale, Nonprofit Group Will Build a Repository of Online Course Content, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 8, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "A nonprofit education group plans to use a $1.5-million grant to create an online repository to help colleges looking for ready-to-deliver online course content find institutions willing to provide them. The new resource, called the National Repository of Online Courses, will be developed by the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education, in California, which plans to announce the effort today....The institute will spend tens of thousands of dollars refining courses to make sure they're ready for widespread distribution, Mr. [Gary] Lopez [executive director of the Monterey Institute] said. In order to break even, it will require colleges and organizations that can afford to do so to pay to use the materials. But he said the institute would keep the prices as low as possible. 'We're not looking for anybody to line their pockets with this,' he said. 'Basically our purpose is to be a break-even organization.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/08/2004 09:21:00 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.
