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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Oxford's World Atlas of Language Structures converts to OA

The World Atlas of Language Structures started life in 2005 as a £475 book from Oxford University Press, but now has an OA edition under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.  The OA edition is a joint production of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Max Planck Digital Library.

Comment.  Thanks to Robert Forkel via pampel and the OATP.  This is the first time I've blogged a bit of news gleaned from the project feed of the open access tracking project.  It's probably the last time I'll make special note of this kind of assistance, which should quickly become routine.  But if you aren't yet following the feed, please note that it's up, working, and growing daily.