... In some cases, digital resources at Harvard have been accelerated or expanded because of an [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] vote in February on open access to scholarly literature. It requires Harvard faculty members to submit an electronic version of scholarly articles to the Provost’s office for an online repository, where they will be available free.
In June, Harvard plans to “open the repository to the world,” said Amy Brand, program manager in the Harvard University Library’s new Office for Scholarly Communication. “The nice thing about a digital archive, as opposed to a physical archive, is that we can make it visible and accessible to the wider world.”
Her office’s DASH repository — as in, Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard — is now only available to members of the Harvard community as a beta test, she said.
But by this summer, DASH will be accessible to anyone worldwide through Google Scholar and other online indexing services.
In May, Harvard Law School (HLS) instituted a parallel open-access requirement for its faculty scholarship.
Harvard University Press (HUP) is also exploring open access, said Daniel Lee, director of digital content development. Early next year it will publish the first online issue of the Journal of Legal Analysis, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal sponsored by HLS. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 12/19/2008 06:13:00 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.
