A2K is a project working to ensure healthcare staff in Wales have easy access to healthcare knowledge and evidence, and have the tools they require to retrieve such evidence. Healthcare staff in hospitals, GP surgeries and NHS Dental practices will be able to electronically access the latest and the best evidence to support them as they care for patients....The project is currently building up a picture of what health professionals need in terms of electronic databases, journals, guidelines and where there are gaps in this need. This will inform the procurement of new resources for a National e-library for Wales, building on the current HOWIS e-library. It has now been agreed that the e-library will be built incrementally in four cycles from Sept 2005 – to Sept 2006, and the project approach altered to meet this more immediate delivery cycle.
(PS: Good project, bad name. Informing Healthcare should understand that there is already an Access to Knowledge project and that it too uses the initials A2K. It's part of the Development Agenda at WIPO and includes a draft treaty that would require OA to publicly-funded research. It's facing enough obstacles without the new burden of having to explain just which A2K it is.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/27/2005 11:43:00 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.
