In the five months since ProQuest launched Digital Commons@, the institutional-repository software has been adopted by Boston College, the University of Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, Trinity College, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Middlebury College. Excerpt from ProQuest's November 12 press release: "Digital Commons@ was introduced at the American Library Association annual conference last June. Powered by the vigorous Bepress platform (the technology partner driving the University of California's eScholarship Repository), it offers a highly desirable combination of functionality and price that is unmatched by any other IR product currently on the market...."Subscribers are excited that they can set up a fully functional, feature-rich Institutional Repository in a matter of hours, for less investment than the do-it-yourself options," said Austin McLean, director of scholarly communication and dissertations publishing for ProQuest.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/15/2004 09:48:00 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.
