Nancy Allmang, Rosa Liu, and Susan Sanders, Building an Information Commons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Library: A Case Study, Libres, March 2005. Abstract: 'With the advent of the new Knowledge Society, special libraries need to review user zones and services to ensure that they continue to provide features customers want and need. They must now offer spaces and places for people to come together, as in the English Commons of old, to share ideas and technologies. They must heed the call of the open access movement and begin to play a part in it. This article discusses details of the transformation of physical and virtual spaces of the Research Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology over the past two years into a comprehensive InfoCommons.'
From the body of the article: 'In support of Open Access principles, the NIST Virtual Library now includes a category called (Free) Open Access journals on its E-journals page. Links were selected with the guidance of the Research Library Advisory Board after consulting the Directory of Open Access Journals (free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals at Lund University's http://www.doaj.org/). NIST’s Information Services Division has published several articles explaining open access in its monthly internal newsletter. As an example to NIST scientists, library staff themselves are making an effort to publish articles in free or Open Access library journals.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/05/2005 11:42:00 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.
