... Nottingham was the first UK university
to set up an institutional open-access
repository, making its research available
online. That was seven years ago, but
since then open access has grown significantly
in higher education. Nottingham's
Sherpa Project has helped create academic
repositories in a host of research-led universities
and today there are 118.
Bill Hubbard, the project's manager, forsees
all publicly-funded research becoming
available in this way within a decade.
As the momentum for open access grows,
he says, so it will reach a tipping point.
"You remember the adoption of email?
One year people were saying what's this
techie thing - it will never catch on. A year
later everybody was emailing like crazy.
"I would expect that within the next 10
years, the use of repositories will be an
expected and natural part of a researcher's
work habits." ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 4/28/2008 04:40:00 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.
