... The speakers covered why digital repositories are important for Scottish universities, why it’s important to populate repositories and what the challenges are, the legal perspective on open access publishing and bibliometrics and research assessment. ...
I think one issue might be the word ‘repository’ not being particularly attractive to researchers. The Netherlands seemed to cleverly get round this by calling their repository the Cream of Science which was originally set up by asking some of the top researchers to contribute and thereby encouraging others to follow suit. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 2/20/2009 03:50:00 PM.
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.
