...I was one of the facilitators in a workshop on Open Access: Sharing Research, Expanding Resources
In this practical workshop, panelists from Latin America, Asia and Africa showed how Open Access is a winning proposition for all by presenting their own, real experiences that will equip participants with the information, encouragement, and contacts to return to their own institutions as leaders in Open Access. Focusing on Institutional Repositories (IR) as a means to expand the research resources and networks of researchers and research institutions, participants will gain practical suggestions for designing an IR model for their own organizations and to address such topics as building organizational readiness; intellectual property and knowledge sharing issues; technical requirements; resource finding; content recruitment; and digitization.
This workshop aimed to provide the link between the vision and practical guidelines for implementation, by applying common practices to address the following questions in participants own suggestion:
1. How do I get started with Open Access within my own institution, whether it be a research organization or a journal publisher?
2. How do I create a will to build an open access repository or to create (or transition to) an open access journal? What are some of the challenges and success stories?
3. Where can I find resources to the greater open access community?
4. What are the main issues I will need to address and what are some of the best practices (e.g. technical, copyright, digitization, skill sets) in Open Access? ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/15/2007 10:07:00 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.
