The Bibliotheque nationale de France(BnF) helped the European Digital Librarymove a step closer to the goal of a fully comprehensive European collection of cultural heritage after announcing the development of their new Europeana portal.
According to the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)the BnF managed to raise funds as well as provide a possible template of what a future European Digital Library may be. The funding will now allow the digitisation and uploading of an additional 80-100,000 items each year from the BnF’s Gallica collection....
Contributions from digital initiatives from other members such as those by the Polish National Libraryand the Dutch Royal Libraryare also being put into place following investment from the respective nation’s governments. Whilst private/public initiatives from those such as The British Library and Microsoftare also viewed as positive as they increase the amount of digital information available to the user.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/27/2007 02:19:00 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.
