Headline message from the conference - Don't mention the ‘Preservation’ word! (it's confusing and people worry about it) … it's all about enabling future ACCESS to spectacular resources.
Comment. I like the way this flips the conventional wisdom at many institutional repositories: "Don't mention open access (people don't know what it is or they will make up things to worry about); get faculty to deposit their manuscripts by talking about PRESERVATION." Now who's right?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/03/2008 02:28:00 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.
