Julio Alonso, et al., Informe APEI sobre acceso abierto, report by the Asociación Profesional de Especialistas en Información (Spain), self-deposited November 14, 2008. (Thanks to BusalBlog.) English abstract:
Report about open access where it is explained that the movement 'open access' is, the new forms of scientific communication, what is a repository and a haverster, and the state of the art of open access in Spain.
Contents:
The electronic edition (e-journals, scientific communication).
Free access to research results (movement for open access, intellectual property).
The publishing and free access (editorial policies, data on open access).
Repositories, harversters and services (repositories, self-archive, harversters, open-access journals).
Repositories and haversters in Spain (the development of repositories, Government initiatives).
Information resources (information sources and bibliography).
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 11/23/2008 08:44:00 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.
