Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen, The Dawning of the Dutch Network of Digital Academic REpositories (DARE): A Shared Experience, Ariadne, October 2004. Excerpt: "The SURF Programme Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) is a joint initiative of Dutch universities to make their academic output digitally accessible. The KB (National Library of the Netherlands), the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) also cooperate in this unique programme. DARE is being coordinated by the SURF Foundation. The programme will run from January 2003 until December 2006. DARE has several goals: [1] Implementing the basic infrastructure by setting up and linking the repositories; [2] Stimulating the development of services based on the research information made available through the infrastructure; and [3] Initiating and promoting the submission to and use of scientific content from the repositories."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/31/2004 08:51:00 AM.
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.
