Three French associations have issued a call for a national policy on scientific and technical information. The associations are COUPERIN (Consortium Universitaire des Publications Numériques), ADBU (Association des directeurs et des personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et de la documentation), and AURA (Association du réseau des établissements utilisateurs de l'ABES); see also comments by COUPERIN. The document calls for:
encouraging OA journals and non-commercial subscription journals
state-level discussions with French publishers on defining their OA policies
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/10/2009 05:17:00 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.
