The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is digitizing all its print and microfiche publications in order to make them OA. From a March 9 call for comments: 'GPO is working with the library community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications. The objective is to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDLP [Federal Depository Library Program].' For details, see the GPO's June 2004 report. If you have comments on the project, send them to Judith C. Russell by Monday, March 28, 2005. (Thanks to digitizationblog.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/15/2005 09:12:00 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.
