An expanded version of the Sudan Open Archive is now available online. The new version, SOA 2.0, features an improved user interface and open access to over a thousand books and documents. SOA 2.0 also incorporates an internet guide with regularly updated links to several hundred Sudan-related websites. The Archive is a searchable, full-text database that covers all aspects of Sudan, making a wide range of material available in digital form for the first time. SOA 2.0 includes dictionaries, historical material on human rights and environmental issues and an extensive collection of recent reports on local peace meetings. There are also key documents concerning the current political process in Sudan. Among the books and reports in the Archive are "The Dhein Massacre" by Ushari Mahmud and Suliman Baldo, the Report of the Abyei Boundaries Commission, dictionaries of Sudanese and Juba Arabic and F.W.Andrews' three-volume "The Flowering Plants of Sudan".
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.
