A non-profit with public funding has launched CultureSource, an OA portal for Canadian courseware and teaching materials. From today's announcement:
CultureSource.ca has arrived! Curriculum Services Canada, supported by a grant from the Canadian Culture Online Strategy of the Department of Canadian Heritage, has assembled a wide collection of websites in the Arts, Canadian Literature, and Canadian History, ideal for lesson planning and in classroom use. This FREE online access point allows teachers to collect websites and share their collections with colleagues from all across Canada in an attempt to enhance the classroom experience.
Users can:
Search by keyword from a database of over 100 CSC-evaluated resources.
Browse through titles with full descriptions and keywords to help pinpoint the best resources for lesson plans.
Collect resources and build a CultureSpace.
Share a CultureSpace and Collection with the CultureSource.ca user community....
Curriculum Services Canada is the Pan-Canadian standards agency for quality assurance in learning products and programs. This not-for-profit organization offers a wide range of standards-driven services that support and complement its core business of learning resource evaluation.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/31/2007 12:31:00 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.
