The JISC budget for funding OA repositories and related initiatives has just been enlarged. From today's press release: 'It was announced today that JISC has received an extra £15m to invest in IT initiatives to support learning, teaching and research. The money, awarded by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) through its Strategic Development Fund (SDF), is in addition to £25m from the Spending Review agreed earlier this year. The funds, totalling £40m, will be used for a range of activities and represents a significant investment to support and enhance further the UK's digital infrastructure, access to online content and the development of digital repositories....The funding, which covers the years 2006 – 2008, will be invested in the following areas of activity: ...[2] further digitisation of major scholarly collections;...[5] development of a shared infrastructure to support the growing use of institutional repositories.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/28/2005 07:20:00 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.
