Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) is funding projects "to develop interoperability between publishers and aggregators and the the JISC Information Environmnet (IE)." From the solicitation: 'Aversion to such standards as OAI may derive from a mistaken, but understandable, assumption that the metadata harvesting protocol is intended for freely available archives. The PALS Interoperability and Metadata Working Group was set up in November 2002 to address this issue. Membership is drawn from both the publishing and the library communities. The initial objective of the group is to analyse the barriers to publishers' use of metadata, and identify possible solutions and one round of projects has already been completed....The group are currently inviting proposals to undertake a second round of projects that help to develop interoperability between publishers and aggregators and the the JISC Information Environmnet (IE). The deadline for tenders is 6th September 2005. The aim of these projects is to highlight and
explore the issues surrounding the development of interoperable, metadata-based services offered by publishers based on their electronic publications. The projects are expected to be of a three to ten months timescale and to start no later than October 2005.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/27/2005 10:12:00 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.
