OCLC has launched a project to harvest metadata from participating DSpace repositories and make it available in a non-OAI format for reharvesting by non-OAI services like Google. (PS: This subtracts nothing from OAI interoperability and adds greatly to the visibility of OAI-compliant resources, or at least the DSpace subset of them. According to OCLC's announcement page, it has an April 9 press release on this project, but the link is dead at the moment. I include the link here in case it revives later.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/10/2004 11:35:00 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.
