Nereus is conducting a survey of economists in order to strengthen NEEO (Network of European Economists Online), its portal of OA economics research. From the survey site:
NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) is an EU-funded project which will address the lack of integration of academic output amongst premier European economists institutions by creating a powerful new research tool call Economists Online. The survey is intended to identify the needs of the end users and will be used as a basis for the content acquisition and dissemination plan and design of the project’s information services.
Specifically the survey will help us to identify:
authors’ requirements for storing and disseminating full text documents they have produced
authors’ requirements for storing and disseminating statistical datasets they have produced
researchers’ requirements for access to documents and datasets
need for value-added services ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/20/2007 01:39:00 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.
