International Repositories Organisation - how can repositories and their teams work better together. Note that this action plan is being taken forward by a group being coordinated by the DRIVER project....
Drafts of the four plans were briefly considered by a group of infrastructure funders on 17th March 2009, who expressed general support for all of them, and varying degrees of interest in funding work under each of them. Some are already funding relevant work, which needs to be coordinated internationally. That's one purpose of this wiki.
Briefing materials
Alma Swan has produced and is maintaining a set of briefing materials that support this work by documenting current work under a range of headings relevant to the action plans. If you have any updates on any of these, please either email Alma so that she can update the map versions to match.
Update (4/21/09). Also see Alma Swan's announcement:
An ongoing project has been looking at the global repositories infrastructure with the aim of determining where work needs to be done to ‘fill in the gaps’ and produce a truly interoperable system of repositories for research outputs. With respect to those outputs, we have focused for the time being on journal articles but are mindful of the other types of research output and hope that these will be encompassed at a later date.
An international workshop was held in Amsterdam last month, attended by a hundred or so repository experts who spent two days in discussion in small groups to develop draft action plans around four themes. These four themes had been identified as areas of high priority during online discussions in this community of experts over several months prior to the workshop....
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Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/17/2009 03:54:00 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.
