Best Content. Google Book Search –– This project has seen unprecedented expansion as Google has added a great number of new libraries including many outside of the United States. “By the pound,” this is one of the most ambitious digitization projects ever done....
Best Pricing. NYTimes.com –– The free Web version of the New York Times and its backfile represents one of the best opportunities on the Web. The addition of video, podcasts, and other features shows how newspapers can transform themselves.
Lemon Award. PRISM (The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine) –– The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced a partnership to oppose efforts to put publicly funded research in the public domain. They oppose “the risks of proposed government interference with the scholarly communication process.” These publishers should not bite the hand that feeds them....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/29/2007 06:24:00 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.
