Looking over one of his older articles posted online, Computer and Information Science professor Fernando Pereira was surprised to find a surge in downloads. The article had been around for a while, he thought, and he no longer expected great demand. The renewed interest, he believes, sprouted from ScholarlyCommons@Penn, an open, online archive of University research. He submitted the article to the Commons -- which indexes submissions on Google and Google Scholar -- during the project's one-year test period, which ended at the end of this summer. However, Penn undergraduates hoping to find research on Scholarly Commons will have to wait -- unless they are looking for papers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Law School or the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. While current searchable scholarship is limited to these schools, Engineering Librarian Mary Steiner hopes to bring in research from departments across Penn's other schools....Steiner is also pleased with the amount of Internet traffic generated by Penn research, which she says is the result of making Scholarly Commons research available through the Google search engine.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/14/2005 10:54:00 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.
