This marriage was part of the plan when OCLC acquired OAIster back in January. While the FirstSearch version of OAIster is is behind a price wall, OCLC has promised that "OAIster will remain a permanently free, open access service."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/19/2009 04:23:00 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.
