JISC have announced five new digitisation projects, funded jointly with US’s National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Looking at the announcement text, I am slightly worried about the licences under which the resulting digitised resources will be made available. ... I, for one, would feel reassured if such things were made more explicit. ...
Based on the minimal information provided about the five projects, only one explicitly mentions the use of Creative Commons, one mentions the development of open source software and one talks about results being freely available (though as mentioned above, being free and being open are two different things). ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 3/31/2008 11:45:00 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.
