I just finished a project that I've wanted to do for a long time. I've translated all the back issues of the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter into HTML and put them into a unified newsletter archive. This gives me control over the texts (so that I can correct occasional typos), over the look (which I've kept very close to the original, simple email), and over their long-term fate. I've added some internal anchors for cross-referencing, and now issues that cite one another also link to one another.
But I'm excited by two changes above all. First, the texts are now out from the deep internet, in the sunshine, and crawlable by standard search engines. Look for them in Google any day now. Second, I've put all the back issues in the index of the search engine in the blog sidebar. Now you can run integrated searches over blog content and newsletter content. The same search engine covers my conference page, my timeline, my guide, and my other writings on open-access.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/16/2003 11:00:00 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.
