Reportlinker, the search engine specializing on OA market research, was just recognized with a Best Hope 2007 award from France's IE Club. Details from the Reportlinker blog:
Reportlinker...won the prize “Best Hope 2007”, in the Services category. 30 projects have been selected by the IE-Club jury, among 120 companies, to become part of the “ITech-economy” leaders.
Reportlinker, launched on March 2007, has perfectly matched the criteria requested to be distinguished: be innovative, get the capacity to impact the international market and be able to lead this market....
Reportlinker is a vertical web 3.0 search engine dedicated to open access market research reports....Reportlinker provides accurate business information: more than 1,2 million reports, published by trusted sources (governments, embassies, national statistics agencies, trade unions…). The professional research engine also includes in its index many results from the deep web....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/19/2007 09:41:00 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.
