...Twidox is a free, user generated online library of ‘quality’ documents that allows individuals and organisations to easily publish, share and search for them.
Documents on twidox are accessible to everyone online and will allow people to share their knowledge and help others with their work, learning, teaching and research.
The focus of the website is on:
professional and industry specific documents
research material
academic papers and articles
coursework and dissertations and;
data and statistics
The site archives and indexes every published text and makes it searchable to other users, free of charge....
Organisations can create a branded page on twidox, include contact information and an introduction, and create different folders for their documents. They can also include multiple moderators of the organisation page. The likes of the United Nations and Sun Microsystems are already using it, and we will concentrate on getting more organizations (particularly universities) on twidox over the coming weeks....
So far we have around 30.000 documents and are in the process of uploading 60.000 more documents from our partners. The next few weeks we will also carry on testing twidox, asses the user’s feedback and then slowly start the PR machine....
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.
