InformeDesign offers free online human-written summaries of scholarly journal articles in the field of design. The articles it summarizes are seldom themselves free and online. Registered users may comment on the research summaries. The service is sponsored by the American Society of Interior Designers, funded by corporations that sell products to designers (for example, paint and carpet), and hosted by the University of Minnesota. (Thanks to NewsBreaks.) (PS: This is a wonderful service for researchers. Does anyone know of similar services in any other field?)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/20/2003 02:09:00 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 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.
