hprints, the consortial repository for Nordic humanities research, has finalized the deal to be hosted by HAL (Hyper Archive Online), the consortial repository hosted by France's CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
Erland Kolding Nielsen, Director of the Royal Danish Library/Copenhagen University Library, has signed a 3-year agreement with the French research council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) regarding the hosting of hprints, the scholarly electronic archive for Nordic research in the humanities....
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.
