UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield AO has formally launched UQ eSpace, The University of Queensland's open access institutional repository....
University Librarian and Director of Learning Services, Mr Keith Webster said that UQ eSpace already had some 7000 documents and tens of thousands of images, which would be enhanced by the addition of a further 50,000 references of UQ staff research publications in the near future.
UQ eSpace allows scholars around the world to discover UQ research and research output in the repository is picked up by popular search engines like Google. Already the most popular paper in UQ eSpace has been downloaded more than 20,000 times. Professor Greenfield congratulated the Library on the development of UQ eSpace, which played an important role in raising the visibility of UQ research to the world....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/13/2008 03:04:00 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.
