Norm Medeiros, A repository of our own: the E-LIS e-prints archive, OCLC Systems & Services, 20, 2 (2004) pp. 58-60. Only this abstract is free online: "This article reviews the E-Prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) open access archive. E-LIS is part of the Research in Computing, Library and Information Science (RCLIS) project, an international effort to organize and disseminate scholarly papers in librarianship and related fields. E-LIS uses open source applications, and joins a growing number of OAI-compliant services dedicated to providing free access to scholarly information." (Thanks to Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) (PS: E-LIS is one of the two OA archives for library science that has agreed in advance to provide OA to articles about OA. The other is dLIST.)
Update. There's now an OA edition of the article on deposit at E-LIS.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/10/2004 01:43:00 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.
