... The JOL project began in 1998 with African Journals Online (AJOL) as simple HTML pages on the INASP website. ...
In accordance with INASP’s mandate to develop sustainability and local capacity, AJOL was moved to Africa in 2005 and is managed by a not-for-profit trust in South Africa. It has gone from strength to strength with more than 340 journals from 25 countries on the site in June 2009. ...
Since 2006, the following Asian JOLs have been set up: Bangladesh (BanglaJOL), Nepal (NepJOL), Philippines (PhilJOL), Sri Lanka (SLJOL), Vietnam (VJOL).
The Asian JOLs now include 133 journals with 6,420 articles. As of May 2009, 73% of these are available as open access full text ...
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.
