One year ago this month, ARL published an impressive book and Web site to commemorate its 75th anniversary: Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries. With this joint publication, a significant and surprising gap in our contemporary information environment has been highlighted: there is no current, freely available directory of major research collections or academic and research library subject strengths in North America. ARL’s Celebrating Research Web site could serve as the springboard for the library community to create one....
So let this be a call:
Let ARL’s Celebrating Research Web site be the start of a new, open access, online directory of all special collections in North American libraries....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/24/2008 12:00:00 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.
