Mark Chillingworth, BioMed Central opens access to institutional repositories, Information World Review, September 15, 2004. Excerpt: "Open Repository provides organisations with a service that will build, launch, maintain and populate an institutional repository. BioMed Central believes organisations are being held back by a lack of infrastructure and technical capacity to build a repository in-house. [BMC's Natasha] Robshaw expects organisations to be interested in the hosting service. 'Hosting is a pain to set up and the on-going costs can be high. We have the servers and the Oracle databases to run repositories on our systems.' BioMed Central will charge a one-off set-up fee to build the repository using DSpace, an open source software application. Customers can add a wide variety of content formats to the repository, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files, videos or databases. BioMed Central offers a service that converts articles to PDF and XML formats. All repositories will feature a search engine."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/15/2004 01:15:00 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.
