This year’s Jason Farradane Award for outstanding work in the field of information science was today presented to Intute, the JISC-funded free online search service.
With over 120,000 links to academic content on the Web, as well as a suite of virtual training tutorials and Internet information services, Intute has grown from its origins in JISC’s 1996 e-Lib programme to become a community resource, contributed to by subject specialists in libraries and other organisations across the UK....
The committee felt that ‘Intute's model of shared services has made the UK a world leader in delivering Internet services for education and research on a national level.’ ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/04/2007 11:09:00 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.
