Secretary General José Miguel Insulza signed the “Contributor Agreement” with Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, at an OAS headquarters ceremony Thursday.
Under the agreement, the OAS’ Columbus Memorial Library will collaborate on the global library project ...
The OAS Library was created in April 1890 by the First International Conference of American States ...
“The Columbus Memorial Library is the repository of the institutional memory of the OAS and its predecessor, the Pan American Union,” Insulza explained. “It serves as a modern information and documentation center, providing essential information to the OAS General Secretariat, the Permanent Missions, the diplomatic community, and the general public interested in the organizations’ work and the history of the inter-American system.” ...
“Working with the OAS sends an important signal to cultural institutions in all the countries of the Western Hemisphere about cooperation in this project,” the Librarian of Congress added ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/14/2008 06:41:00 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.
