Mark Chillingworth, Consortium to deliver electronic theses, World Information Review, April 11, 2005. Excerpt: 'JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, is funding the development of an electronic resource that will provide access to academic theses. In collaboration with the British Library and the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL), Electronic Theses Online will be available in 12 months time. Electronic Theses Online will provide electronic access to full-text theses and details of electronic institutional theses repositories. The central repository is being developed by the British Library. The partners are developing a web interface that will provide cross searching of theses and will protect the intellectual property rights of the theses authors.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/11/2005 01:59:00 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.
