The Library of Congress has given the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Libray a $750,000 grant "to support research and development of tools that will help address complex problems related to collecting, storing and accessing digital materials". Herbert Van de Sompel will be the principal investigator. Quoting Van de Sompel: "Research papers that detail the design of our repository work attracted the interest of the Library of Congress. The modular and fully standards-based design suggested applicability beyond Los Alamos' Research Library. The Library of Congress funding will further focus our research and help us to explore the path of using our approach beyond [the Laboratory]." For more details, see Steve Sandoval's story in the LANL Daily News Bulletin. (Thanks to Joan Lippincott of CNI.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/02/2004 11:46:00 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.
