I don’t know how much people in blogging or the wider domain of New Media know about this strange model of academic publishing. However bloggers, once made aware of it, can help [the] open access movement in number of ways. One way is to blog on Open Access itself. There are few already there and well established like the one by Peter Suber. Some others which I know are OA Librarian; The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics and I will also mention the one from student community – Open Students: students for open access to research. Second way is to blog about various open access resources. Every day, number of resources including journals, repositories, open courseware etc are launched and announced. These could be evaluated, annotated and listed under well planned categories (or tags) in a blog. Links of such tags or categories automatically collate resources into listings of related posts. It could be very similar to Digital Scholarship. Third way has to do more with subject experts. Scientists and Scholars can blog on how to promote open access within their own subject domain. Open Access Anthropology: Promoting Open Access in Anthropology is beautiful example. Very similar concept has been highlighted in a presentation - Blogging Archaeology: creating an Open Access source for knowledge. Fourth way is to blog about Peer-Reviewed Research. All such blog posts can be aggregated at one place. There could be many more ways to promote Open Access through blogging.
Comment. A very good set of ideas. On the first item, blogging about OA itself, see the list of Blogs about OA at the Open Access Directory. Because OAD is a wiki, you can help keep this list comprehensive and up to date.
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Peter Suber at 5/30/2008 09:10:00 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.
