The Georgetown University Press (GUP) has entered a partnership with Digital Georgetown, "the digital hub for Georgetown University's scholarship and research initiatives." Together they will produce OA publications from GUP's print back catalog and maybe even from new material. From yesterday's story in the Blue & Gray, the school paper:
There is a movement within many academic circles to make such materials more accessible by posting them online. A new partnership between Georgetown University Press and Digital Georgetown is a step in that direction. Digital Georgetown is an online hub for scholarship materials that launched in 2004 and is directed by Joan Cheverie, a former reference librarian at Lauinger Library. In recent months, Cheverie has been working with Hope Smith-LeGro, electronic editor at GU Press, to put collections of previously published research online. Their first project has been to post the proceedings from GURT, the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. In the past, the roundtable's work has only been published in book form. Recognizing that some scholars may be searching for specific information, GU Press wanted to provide the materials in format that is readily accessible. "We really view ourselves as an academic resource," Smith-LeGro said. GURT conferences from 1999 to 2001 are now online and free for any user of the site; conferences prior to 1999 are in the process of being transferred to digital format, Cheverie said. GU Press will continue to sell GURT books and will post the content online five years after the print date....Although publishing scholarly materials online is a developing trend at universities worldwide, the collaboration between an academic press and the library system is rare, Cheverie said. "We've found a great synergy in this partnership because we have such complementary missions," she said.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/21/2006 11:37:00 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.
