David Seaman, Deep Sharing: A Case for The Federated Digital Library, EduCause Review, July/August 2003. Excerpt: "Libraries are collaborative by nature --we freely share expertise, staff, ideas, and information about holdings for our collective good. Shared cataloging is a striking example: a cataloguer in one library creates a record about a book to share in a central database rather than in his or her local system, and all others who contribute to the collaborative can download that bibliographic record into their local systems rather than re-creating it at innumerable institutions. Librarians are talking about extending such interdependence and 'deep sharing' to digital content by creating a Distributed Online Digital Library (DODL), which would depart from the status quo in terms of function, service, reuse of content, and library interdependency."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/15/2003 02:38:00 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.
