Mark McFarland, The UTOPIA Project, D-Lib Magazine, January 2005. Excerpt: 'Two years ago the president of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) announced a campus-wide initiative to systematically digitize and make available to the public via the World Wide Web the intellectual and cultural treasures of the institution. On March 6, 2004, the campus went live with a site called UTOPIA....We are currently in the process of preparing for a DSpace implementation, and we have been discussing the problem of how best to engage with faculty on this issue. The primary goal of this effort is to greatly accelerate ongoing efforts to digitize and make available UT-owned resources held in its libraries, museums, collections, laboratories, research units and departments. This new effort has three important components: [1] To digitize and provide access to materials from our collections, museums, laboratories and classrooms to the public free of charge, [2] To establish a connection with K-12 community by developing content and services that support the classroom teacher, [3] To serve as a digital archive for material produced by faculty members.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/17/2005 03:14:00 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.
