Les Carr has written an account of the Open Access Workshops in Chennai, India (May 2-4 and 6-8, 2004). Excerpt: "The workshops were attended by 50 scientists, research managers and librarians from a wide range of research institutions from India....The workshops covered essential background (Open Access philosophy, the
theory of the Open Archiving Metadata Protocols, issues of document and metadata formats) but majored on the practical aspects of using, installing and configuring EPrint archives, with a particular focus on the budgetary and management resources required for setting up a pilot
project within each organistaion to establish an institutional archive." The workshops were funded by the Open Society Institute, the International Development Research Centre of Canada, The British Council, and the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/10/2004 02:41:00 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.
