Among the new partners for Quaero, the European "Google-killer" search engine, are some not known for their OA-friendliness, like Bertelsmann, France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom and Bertin Technologies, but also some on the record for supporting OA, like CNRS and INRIA. This won't matter unless Quaero, like Google, goes beyond indexing online information to digitizing print literature.
The Quaero web site is still closed while under construction.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/17/2006 10:02:00 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.
