Internet Archive, Libraries Collaborate on Open-Access Text Archives, Library Journal, December 27, 2004. An unsigned news story. Excerpt: 'Google can certainly steal the media thunder, but it isn't the only game in town. Earlier this month, the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced partnerships with a number of international libraries, including the Library of Congress, the University of Toronto, and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt, Zhejiang University in China, and the Netherlands-based European Archive--all part of an ongoing effort launched in 2003 to scan books. The goal of the Internet Archive text project is to put digitized books into "open-access archives," ensuring easy --and continuous-- access for the public....IA officials say they hope to have over as 70,000 books up by spring. Currently, over one million public domain or "appropriately licensed" books have been committed to the archive, and over 27,000 are already available.' (PS: See the IA's December 15 press release.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/24/2004 09:04:00 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.
