Eric Lease Morgan has launched MyLibrary@OCKHAM, a project to make OA content from the National Science Digital Library easier to browse, search, organize, and explore. From the site: 'This is MyLibrary@OCKHAM, a demonstration of how to make National Science Foundation Digital Library content more available through traditional libraries venues. This goal is accomplished in four steps: [1] Create a framework for storing relevent content using MyLibrary. [2] Harvest content from the NSDL OAI Repository, and save it to the underlying MyLibrary database. [3] Write reports against the database in the form of browsable lists. [4] Index the content to provide searchable interfaces....[The about page] briefly describes MyLibrary@OCKHAM, and how systems like it can be used to collect, organize, index, and disseminate OAI and open access content as targeted digital library services and collections. One of the stated goals of NSF-sponsored project called OCKHAM is to implement a Find More Like This One service. In other words, once a particular item is identified by the user as desirable implement a system whereby similar items can be identified and brought to the user's attention. Through the creation of a relatively large collection of items, allowing the user to select desirable characteristics from identified items, and through a bit of semantic analysis we hope to implement such a service.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/31/2005 11:16:00 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.
