The Knowledge Exchange (no web site yet) was officially launched today as pan-European body devoted to ICT policy. From the JISC press release (December 1):
[T]he new organisation aims to develop closer working relationships in order to increase the return on national investment in ICT infrastructure, services and projects. The founder members of the Knowledge Exchange are JISC, the SURF Foundation (Netherlands), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) and Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF). With the international dimension increasingly important both in education and research and in the use of ICT, these organisations will work together under the umbrella of the Knowledge Exchange to share information, increase the profile of national research and development activities, and where appropriate work towards a common infrastructure based on international standards....Bo Öhrström, Deputy Director to the Danish National Library Authority and host for the Knowledge Exchange office welcomes this opportunity: “DEFF look forward to a closer co-operation with prominent, national organisations in the digital learning, teaching and research areas in order to secure a common infrastructure environment for all partners. Another key aim of the new body is to inform European policy....
(PS: The KE has no specific mission to promote OA. But its role in advising on ICT policy in research and education, and the OA-friendliness of its founding members, make it an important player in European OA policy. For example, the KE could help persuade the emerging European Research Council to mandate OA for ERC-funded research.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/01/2005 07:53:00 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.
