The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) has added several significant improvements. For example, it now displays the OA repositories it harvests by continent and country. Each country on the map of Europe, for example, shows the number of that country's repositories in the BASE index. Click on a number and jump to a page showing statistics on the country, including the number of documents on deposit in its repositories, a list of those documents, and flexible ways to search and sort through them. The list of documents is in XML for others to use, re-use, and mashup as they like. (Thanks to Dirk Pieper.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/16/2009 11:23:00 AM.
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.
