From Brendan O'Keefe's story in today's The Australian on OA archiving at Australian universities:
University of Sydney library manager of innovation and development Ross Coleman told the conference: "We're moving from the technical to the community."...The Queensland University of Technology has begun a project that academics hope will make knowledge free to all, from members of the public to top-tier researchers. QUT school of law professor Brian Fitzgerald has $1.3million and two years to develop the Open Access to Knowledge Law project, which aims to remove barriers to the use of information on university websites....Open repositories were "probably not a threat to large publishers, though some people like to think [they are]", Mr Coleman said. "Some of the journals allow authors to put their work in the local repositories, but that's not the final, edited copy.
"The large publishers are still getting their heads around this."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/22/2006 08:55:00 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.
