The EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) project has created an EThOS Toolkit to help UK institutions wanting to provide OA to their electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). From the site:
Using this toolkit will enable your institution to work in partnership with other Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the British Library to ensure a high level of national and international visibility for UK postgraduate theses and dissertations.
EThOS aims to enable end-users to access the full text of electronically stored UK theses, in secure format, via a single Web interface. The toolkit shows how theses produced by students at your institution can be accessed, via EThOS, from the British Library or from your institutional (or consortium) repository.
Comment. This is an important front for the OA movement and I strongly support it. The toolkit wisely goes beyond technical and legal details to suggestions for changing the institutional culture.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/11/2006 10:15:00 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.
