LIS student Jason Hammond has won the Spirit of Librarianship Award from his school for a raft of good deeds, one of which was helping to "initiate a new open-access online journal for LIS students, called Cantilever." I can't find a web site for Cantilever yet, but will blog it when I can. Meantime, congratulations to Jason and best wishes for the new journal.
Update (5/1/06). Jason Hammond did not create Cantilever. That honor goes to David Jackson. Hammond works on it with Jackson, Linda Bussiere, and Sabina Jane Iseli-Otto, all students at U of Western Ontario.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/19/2006 11:01:00 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.
