Mark Chillingworth, Google refines scientific search with CrossRef pilot, Information World Review, May 10, 2004. Excerpt: "Google's search engine has finally made a major move into the scientific publishing community, following the announcement of a one-year trial initiative with index-linking specialist CrossRef....CrossRef Search offers full-text searching across the scientific journals and conference papers available from the [nine participating] publishers....It is expected other publishers will join the scheme in time. 'The aim is to have all publishers join and create a ubiquitous search,' Tibbitts said. 'Users don't care where information is published, they just want access, it is better to have something that everyone can use,' said Peter Wrobel, managing editor of Nature."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/11/2004 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.
