JISC has released a supportive statement on the University of Southampton commitment to open access. Excerpt: 'Public online access to research findings emanating from universities, enabled through funding the development of institutional repositories, is a JISC priority (The forthcoming edition of JISC Inform, available in January 2005, includes an overview of repositories). Southampton University has, through its JISC-funded TARDis project, examined how institutional repositories can be used by researchers to deposit their outputs, to provide a rich source of material to build the UK's research infrastructure. Southampton is now taking its TARDis 'experiment' institution wide, and has the full backing of its most senior staff.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/17/2004 10:45:00 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.
