The Spring issue of Grey Journal is devoted to OA. The articles themselves are not OA, at least so far, but here's the TOC and part of the editor's introduction from the email announcement:
Last December, delegates from sixteen countries worldwide met at GL7 in Nancy, France to address the principles of open access as they apply to grey literature. Information professionals from sectors of government, academics, and business presented results of research projects intended to facilitate open access to grey resources. These results no doubt will allow for the further assessment of information policies both within and outside their respective organizations.
While there was general consensus on the benefits of open access, there were clear differences in how the principles of OA would be implemented. This ranged on a broad continuum between the position of The Royal Society on the one side and that of the Wellcome Trust on the other.
GreyNet seeks to remain in the forefront of this movement, but at the same time feels committed to keeping lines of communication open between these farthest positions....
Since the relaunch of GreyNet by TextRelease in 2003, authors both in the GL Conference Series as well as those contributing to The Grey Journal (TGJ) sign-on to a “non-exclusive rights agreement”. The authors remain free to deposit their own work in other online repositories, which they deem fit. This non-exclusive rights agreement further allows GreyNet to negotiate licensing and cooperative publishing exchange of the full text and metadata contained in its in-house content base.
In this issue of TGJ, a number of papers mainly from GL7 have been selected and brought together under the theme “Grey Matters for OAI”....
Cees de Blaaij (Netherlands), Public funded research and Open Access: Perspectives and policies
Stefania Biagioni (Italy), Assisting scientists to make their research results world wide freely available: an experience begun in the 90s
Rosa Di Cesare, Daniela Luzi, and Roberta Ruggieri (Italy), Open archives and SIGLE participation in Italy: Is there a subtle link between the two experiences?
Mohammad Reza Ghane (Iran), A Survey of Open Access Barriers to Scientific Information: Providing an Appropriate Pattern for Scientific Communication in Iran
Hyekyong Hwang and three co-authors (South Korea), Patterns of Research Output produced by Scholarly Communities in South Korea
Manorama Tripathi, H.N. Prasad, and S.K. Sonker (India), Open Access to Grey Literature: Challenges and Opportunities at the Banaras Hindu University in India
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/21/2006 04:56:00 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.
