Pierre Baruch and Franck Laloë, Archives ouvertes : quels atouts?Pour la Science, February 2007. A primer on OA archiving and HAL for the French edition of Scientific American. Read the original or Google's English; in both cases, only the first paragraph is free online, at least so far.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/09/2007 11:38:00 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.