CLIR, New Digital Initiatives Have Import For All Higher Education, CLIRinghouse, November/December 2003. Excerpt: "Two major digital initiatives announced at the 2003 fall forum of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have far-reaching import for the future of scholarship and teaching in universities and colleges throughout the United States and beyond. One --the Distributed Open Digital Library initiative-- will make more holdings of major research libraries accessible universally in an online, collaborative digital library. The second initiative --the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program-- will engage multiple institutions in R&D work on ways to ensure long-term access to digital resources."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/12/2004 09:02:00 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.
