Yahoo and OAIster have announced a win-win collaboration. An OA repository developed by OAIster will be indexed by Yahoo, increasing the visibility of the repository content and increasing the size and usefulness of the Yahoo index. (PS: Some of this material is undoubtedly in the Yahoo index already, not to mention the Google index. Yahoo is not getting as much new content as it seems, let alone exclusive access to that content. Yahoo is getting is a little new content but, above all, better metadata for that content and a regular feed from OAIster that makes crawling unnecessary. What OAIster gets is a little new exposure but, above all, better metadata for that exposure and more frequent and guaranteed refreshment within the Yahoo index. Thanks to Gary Price for a background conversation that helped me see the real win-win deal behind the hyped win-win deal.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/12/2004 02:01:00 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.
