Tracey Caldwell, EThOS begins in earnest, Information World Review blog, April 19, 2007. Excerpt:
Some of the most innovative research output in the UK will finally shake off its cloak of invisibility in two years’ time with the roll-out of a service that will take UK doctoral theses out of rarely visited library stacks and into the online mainstream.
In January, more than 70 higher education institutions said that they intended to join the Ethosnet project, which is now starting to digitise past doctoral theses in preparation for the Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) in 2009.
EThOS will offer full text access to UK theses through a single web interface. This will include theses digitised and stored electronically by the British Library as well as other theses held electronically by universities....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/23/2007 03:00:00 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.
