Peter Murray-Rust, APSR 2008, A Scientist and the Web, February 14, 2008. Notes from the Open Access Collections workshop by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (February 14, Brisbane).
... Australia has really got its act together on the e-infrastructure. It’s created repositories (not all full) and now the Australian National Data Service (couldn’t find a home page). It got pulled off track last year by trying to make the repositories an instrument of research management for the RQF (Australia’s answer the the UK Research Assessment Exercise).
Moral: If you try to use the repositories for things other than helping authors, then you will lose the authors.
This was a strong theme. If you don’t address what people need to do, then no technology or investment will save you. Australia is pragmatic and learns quickly. It means it can avoid the mistakes of putting lots of investment into cutting edge computer science and then wondering why no scientists go near it. Australia understands the need to concentrate on data. Have we learnt this in the UK? Not sure we have. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 2/16/2008 09:27:00 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.
