The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded $857,005 to the Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center for the project, “The GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR): Advancing the Access and Management of Scholarly Digital Content.”
Georgia Tech, in partnership with the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, North Georgia College and State University, and the College of Coastal Georgia, will build a statewide digital repository to provide access to scholarly works and research information. ...
The GKR program has five activities that it will complete during the grant:
Conduct a survey and focus groups of the USG librarians’ and faculty’s usage and perceptions of digital repositories.
Establish a service to host individual repositories for four participating USG institutions (Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Albany State University, College of Coastal Georgia)
Build a central, searchable web site and database from all eight GKR-related digital repositories, featuring the GKR-developed repository collection mapping tool. This will be done by harvesting database records from all eight GKR-related digital repositories (the four hosted repositories mentioned above, plus existing repositories at Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Valdosta State University).
Establish repository-related services for the GKR partners: copyright assistance, digitization, content submission into their repository, and digital preservation
Design and offer to a nationwide audience a symposium and workshop on managing statewide and consortial repositories. ...
By the project’s end, the GKR will become a comprehensive statewide repository program and has as one of its major goals to increase the number of consortially-managed digital repositories in the U.S. through training and instruction. ...
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.
