The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia's Department for Education, Science and Training (DEST) have announced an agreement to work together on a range of common issues. Since JISC and DEST are leaders within their respective countries in the funding and support for OA projects, this is a promising turn for international OA collaboration. One area of common work mentioned in the announcement is repository services: 'Collaborate on interoperability issues relating to the management...[and] development of repository services, including the testing of solutions where appropriate within and across each country.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/04/2005 12:51:00 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.
