At a presentation on Open Access to the Academic Vice President's Council at BYU last week we discussed changes in academic publishing and proposed moving toward a Open Access policy for this university comparable to Harvard's.
A key component of the Open Access movement is the rise of institutional and disciplinary repositories....
The institutional repository can serve the goals of self-assessment, norming, accreditation--by organizing, ultimately all forms of knowledge production at the university and opening the door to better understanding what we know and what we do as researchers, teachers, or students....
Institutional repositories will become central aspects of university identity in the years to come. The accumulated intellectual output can be showcased and measured for both interior and exterior audiences, and the repository will be as much about outreach (even public relations) as it is about accommodating current research....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/04/2008 12:15:00 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.
