Perspectivia.net is online. This international publication platform for humanities studies sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) now provides free access to selected publications of the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) and their international partners. perspectivia.net starts off with a retro-digitalised version of “Francia”, the journal of the German Historical Institute in Paris, and with electronically published conference reports and reviews. This is just a first selection of the results of the work and research carried out, organised and communicated by the German Humanities Institutes Abroad. In the months to come perspectivia.net will be gradually extending its range of publications.
The Francia articles are gratis OA with this licensing statement: "This article may be downloaded and/or used within the private copying exemption. Any further use without permission of the rights owner shall be subject to legal licences (§§44a-63a UrhG / German Copyright Act)."
PS: For background, see our February 2008 post previewing the site.
Update (11/4/08). Francia recensio is the new, online-only, book-review portion of Francia, and it is libre OA under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/03/2008 03:05:00 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.
