The Japanese National Institute of Informatics launched JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online) in beta on October 22, 2008. JAIRO is a portal for federated searching of Japanese IRs, currently including more than half a million items in 80+ IRs. See the announcement here. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 10/23/2008 12:13:00 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.
