The Office of Technology Assessment Archive, launched in June 2008 by the Federation of American Scientists, contains all the formally issued reports of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, as well as many background papers and contractor papers. The reports cover various scientific and technical policy issues considered by the U.S. Congress from 1972 to 1995. (Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation.)
The archive builds on an earlier site hosted by Princeton University:
We have recently received hundreds of additional documents not previously available to the public ... The new website also includes a search engine that allows users to quickly and easily find specific content in OTA reports. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/12/2008 05:12:00 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.
