The May 18 issue of Library Journal has an unsigned summary of the final session of oral testimony in the UK inquiry. Excerpt: "Witnesses also expressed strong support for institutional repositories. How those repositories would function and who would set them up and maintain them, however, went unanswered, a point which provoked Gibson. MP Robert Key noted that 83 percent of publishers allowed authors to archive their papers in post-print archives, but that hardly any supported pre-print archives. 'What is the government's position and the research councils' on the problem of institutional repositories?' he asked. [John] Wood [from the Research Councils UK] offered enthusiastic support. 'We are fully in favor of institutional repositories,' he said."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/19/2004 08:08:00 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.
