The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec's annual report for fiscal year 2007-08, released on July 30, 2008, contains a description of its digitization activities. (Thanks to Olivier Charbonneau.) Roughly translated excerpt:
... On March 31, 2008, the digitized collections of BAnQ consisted of 8,165,441 files, diffused through the institution's portal or in the process of so being. ...
Newspapers (daily or weekly) constitute a priority of the digitization program. During the exercise, 10 titles were put online, among them some publications which knew a long existence, like L’Action catholique de Québec (1915-1962) or Montreal Witness (1845-1938).
Putting Quebec magazines online constitutes another component of the development of the digital collection. In 2007-2008, BAnQ notable put on line complete collection of L’Action nationale (1933-2005), with the ability for users to search the full text of some 85,000 pages of the magazine. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/07/2008 12:36:00 AM.
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.
