There are interesting signs of an increase in the momentum of change in research communications in South Africa. ...
The latest move has been the announcement in Seoul, Korea of the creation of a global science gateway, WorldWideScience.org ... The good news is that this time there is a good South African presence through the participation of the [Council for Scientific and Industrial Research]'s Research Space repository and the African journals from 24 countries that appear as a result of African Journals Online (AJOL) ...
The CSIR puts South Africa on the map with its participation and its presence on the Executive Board of the [WorldWideScience] Alliance, while the 24 African countries that have journals in the AJOL service give Africa a much stronger presence than it would have otherwise. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 7/29/2008 06:19:00 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.
