Israel Scholar launched today Israel Scholar Works, an OA repository. Quoting from the site: 'Israel Scholar Works is a digital archive for creative work by the faculty and staff of Israel Academic Institutions and Jewish scholars all around the world. Israel Scholar Works aims to unite Israel and Jewish scholarship, to make it available to a wider audience, and to help assure its long-term preservation....Current scholar publishing models are not economically sound and do not serve the public interest. Academic researchers, faculty and students all over the world have access to a decreasing fraction of relevant scholarship. But new software tools and technologies are being developed, tested and implemented. Israel Scholar has the tools to make Israel Scholarship dissemination quick and efficient. Authors can easily submit necessary information and generate cataloging data using a web-based form from any Internet connection.' For more details, see the auxiliary page, Getting Ready To Archive Your Works. (Thanks to Alexei Koudinov.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/21/2005 01:57:00 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.
