Tracey Caldwell, Repository directory builds on OA lists, Information World Review, March 8, 2005. Excerpt: 'Fears that a new British-Swedish directory of open access repositories would add nothing to the open access (OA) cause have been allayed. OA guru Stevan Harnad originally questioned in an email list the value of the DOAR, a co-operative effort of the Sherpa team at the University of Nottingham and the University of Lund, Sweden, commenting that perhaps it was "reinventing the wheel". However, Bill Hubbard, Sherpa project manager, has since clarified that the DOAR will build on and enhance existing archives registers, and Harnad has been reassured with the direction it is taking. Hubbard said: "The Directory of Open Access Repositories will indeed build on what we have. We intend to build on the work that has been done in a large number of existing lists - some small, some large - and try to pull together some features and develop new ones."..."This work obviously depends on accurate and complete descriptions of repositories. We will be looking into how we can advise repositories to add to their descriptions to allow them to be more efficiently located and their contents searched." The project will last 18 months initially.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/08/2005 10:39:00 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.
