More on the fate of ERIC....In the July 17 Chronicle of Higher Education, Brock Read reports that a group of faculty at Syracuse University is fighting to preserve AskERIC, a search engine for ERIC that lost its federal funding in the ERIC reorganization. (The story is only accessible to subscribers.) Excerpt: "But professors at the Information Institute of Syracuse, the location of ERIC's Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, think the AskERIC site is worth continuing, and are preparing to manage it as a branch of the university. Since the Syracuse staff already oversees the site's day-to-day operation, the change will involve only seeking money from the university and from outside sources, rather than depending on the Education Department for funds."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/18/2003 09:07:00 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.
