Open Access News

News from the open access movement

Monday, November 02, 2009

The repository directories OpenDOAR and ROAR are conducting a user survey to inform future development of the services.
An editorial in a University of Minnesota student newspaper endorses OA.
An article in the new issue of IFLA Journal looks at OA repositories in computer science.
Texas A&M University Press is collaborating with the university's IR and the Texas Digital Library for OA publication of selected press books.
The new issue of EDUCAUSE Review features an overview of Bibliotheca Alexandrina's digital initiatives.
Phil Barker discusses the possibilities of repository deposits via RSS.
If you maintain an archive indexed by RePEc, Christian Zimmermann has some suggestions for you.
Arthur Sale isn't happy with Australian Research Online's repository harvesting practices.
The Open Knowledge Foundation updated its tools, Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network and Open Shakespeare.
About 5,000 previously unpublished documents from the American Founding Fathers are now digitized and OA. Funding was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the project was managed by Documents Compass, and access is provided through Rotunda, the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press.

Posted by Gavin Baker at 11/02/2009 05:22:00 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 curtailed my blogging on July 1, 2009, and 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. �Peter Suber.