Rune Dalgaard, Scholarly Collections on the Web, Human IT, 7, 2 (2005). Abstract: 'With the Internet a new medium has become available for communicating scholarly texts. This article focuses on the World Wide Web...as a global, hypertextual archive for scholarly texts and its significance in reconfiguring the corpus of scholarly texts. The first part addresses the Web in light of hypertext theory and a media theoreetic perspective, concentrating on its roots in issues related to the flood of information and its qualities as a medium. The second part will zoom in on the actual use of the Web as a publcation and archival medium for scholars, with a focus on two different scholarly archives. The article concludes with some general reflections on the Web as an archive of archives based on the concepts of network and complexity.' (PS: Dalgaard does not specifically discuss open access, a surprising omission in light of the topics he sketches in the abstract.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/01/2005 10:44:00 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.
