Wendy Sawahel, Arab science 'needs more electronic databases', SciDev.Net, May 21, 2004. Excerpt: "Arab universities are being urged to make their research more accessible by placing information about it --including summaries of research projects and any results to emerge from them-- on easily searchable electronic databases. The calls were made at a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last month, which brought together scientists, technologists, policy makers and economists from across the region. The meeting also heard proposals that a regional database could be built up from a purely national database already established in Saudi Arabia....The increased availability of easily searchable electronic resources would not only give researchers access to a wide range of up-to-date information about the activities of their colleagues in the region, but would increase research productivity, added [Reima Ljarf, professor of English language translation and online learning at King Saud University in Riyadh]."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/21/2004 11:05:00 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.
