The European Commission Headlines service has a story on Germany's eSciDoc project. Excerpt: "Recent moves by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) should further boost this important cause [of scientific communication]. The Ministry – under its national eScience programme – granted funding to two German organisations, FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Society (MPS), to develop a new on-line platform to help scientists collaborate better over the web. The main aim of the 'eSciDoc' project is to build an integrated information, communication and publication package for web-based scientific work so that scientists in the 80 MPS institutes can better collaborate together. The results of the first pilot stage will be shared with other scientific organisations in the hope that the platform may eventually be opened up to an even wider audience....The five-year project...will focus on making their end product as scalable and open as possible to ensure that it reaches a wide range of scientific disciplines and has a suitable international infrastructure. The service should address all aspects of scientific communication, say the developers, including the creation and editing of information, data sharing, publication of findings, and the long-term storing and archiving of research material."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2004 10:43:00 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.
