Stian Haklev, What’s happening with OpenLibrary and OCA, Random Stuff that Matters, November 9, 2008. Blog notes on the Internet Archive / Open Content Alliance workshop (San Francisco, October 27-28, 2008).
Very little was reported on how the general growth of the [Open Library] collection was proceeding, but when I visited their website again, I was surprised to see that the number of full text books had increased from what I remember to be around 400,000 books, to 1,064,822! ...
While this is great, there seem to be some quality issues. ...
Color me confused. I think this effort to make books available online is wonderful, but I fail to understand why they are not more participatory about it. On the OpenLibrary website, I cannot even flag a scan as faulty. ...
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.
