JISC is willing to fund a study "to identify user-oriented services across [OA] digital repositories." Details from the announcement:
The JISC is inviting proposals to undertake a scoping study to identify sustainable technical and organisational models to support user-oriented services across digital repositories. In particular, open access repositories of interest to UK further and higher education are relevant. The study is intended to inform strategies to support access and use of repositories, with a view to the establishment of a national repository services infrastructure or framework. Funding of up to £50,000 including VAT and expenses is available for this study. The deadline for proposals is 13.00 hrs on Monday 24th October 2005. The study should commence by Monday 5th December 2005 at the latest. The study is expected to last 5 months. A final report should therefore be submitted by Friday 28th April 2006. The full Invitation to Tender is attached as a Microsoft Word document.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/10/2005 10:48:00 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.
