More on the fate of ERIC....In the April 21 issue of Information Today, Barbara Quint summarizes the latest developments. The plan for reorganizing the Department of Education (DOE), which runs ERIC, calls for abolishing the 16 ERIC clearinghouses, the 10 adjunct clearinghouses, the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility, and the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. The DOE would hire an independent contractor to take their place and centralize the operation. The new operation will perform most but not all all the services of the current ERIC, which has stirred ERIC defenders to try to modify the plan. ERIC currently gets about 70 million hits per month.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/21/2003 02:03:00 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.
