...[T]he Energy Department’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has set up a partnership with Internet Archive to provide uninterrupted access to more than a million online research papers from OSTI’s E-print Network.... OSTI worked with the Internet Archive’s archiving service, Archive-It, a Web application that helps harvest, manage, search and preserve collections of archived Web pages. The OSTI collection is permanently archived at [Archive-It], where it can be viewed for free by the public. The E-print Network is the largest federal collection that has been preserved through Archive-It. The E-Print Network accesses more than 25,000 scientific Web sites and contains information created by researchers in chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, and computer and information technologies. Users can browse Web sites, receive alerts, and search and access scientific e-prints, documents that are circulated electronically among researchers. “Without a way to periodically archive this material, important science content within this ever-growing, ever-changing online, e-print environment could disappear,” said Walter Warnick, director of OSTI.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/01/2007 10:23:00 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.
