Bill Hubbard, SHERPA: Opening Access to UK Research, CURL News, January 2004. An introduction to SHERPA for UK librarians, by the project director. Excerpt: "Each partner in the project is building its own repository to house the research findings of its own academic members of staff. By adopting OAI-PMH metadata standards for these eprint repositories...these records can be cross-searched along with those of other institutions' repositories. This is an immensely powerful ability, as it delivers quality-marked research findings, free, immediate and direct to an academic's desktop. Search services are provided by so-called 'service providers'. Since they only look at registered repositories, the search results are not clogged by the thousands of junk results that plague normal web-based search-engine results. In this way, e-prints of research papers can be searched and read by academics worldwide, facilitating the wide and rapid dissemination of research. Researchers are able to disseminate their material quickly and easily into their subject communities and in return, their work is built on and cited."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/02/2004 11:41:00 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.
