JISC and CURL have announced a joint study on digitizing research materials. From yesterday's announcement: 'The study aims to: [1] Produce a high level survey of digitised material, both already available and in the process of being created, held in UK research collections across all disciplines, [2] Survey demand for digitised material and identify gaps in existing provision, [3] Develop a mechanism for identifying future digitisation priorities, [4] Review funding structures and opportunities and assess possible ways of funding priority areas, [5] Recommend standards and formats for future digitisation projects, [6] Provide an outline action plan for a national digitisation strategy for the UK research community.' UK academics who wish to share their views should fill out an online questionnaire.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/16/2004 11:38:00 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.
