Thanks to a two-year $292,958 grant, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries will digitize approximately 800 European manuscripts—in all some 320,000 pages—from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, and make then available to the public, free of charge, on the web.
The grant, from the Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will provide for images and bibliographic information to be supplied to the Digital Scriptorium, an image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from institutions worldwide, and offer in an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. ...
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.
