In its campaign to raise funds for the open-access Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, SOLINET has received a challenge grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). From yesterday's press release: 'The Challenge Grant will provide up to $500,000 to match $1.5 million in funds raised from other sources. The Challenge Grant matching funds are available from now through July 2008. Fund-raising is being coordinated by three partners with SOLINET: the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries, and Stanford University. All funds raised by the library community through SOLINET, ICOLC, and SPARC will be placed into an endowment dedicated to providing ongoing operating support for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a dynamic, web-based, open-access reference work. This endowment will enable the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to remain freely available to all users, as it has been since established in 1995. The fund-raising plan for the endowment seeks to obtain the majority of its support from the library and philosophy communities. It provides a new model for libraries to support open-access publications. If successful, the model will save libraries from paying subscription fees for future access to the content of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy....Commitments in support of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy can be registered at http://www.solinet.net/survey/sep.htm.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/25/2005 10:27:00 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.
