Before reading on, a quick comment....How about some cooperation between the various scanning projects? Nice idea but this is business folks. Does a book need to be scanned twice or more? Couldn’t more books be scanned in a shorter amount of time with some cooperation between these and other scanning projects? Who decides and what criteria will be used as books move from the stacks to the scanner? Who will decide what company scans which books and when?
Now, the news…This is some very interesting manuvering by all involved in the Google v. Microsoft search war. Yahoo is also part of the Open Content Alliance. As we also mentioned last week, it was two months to the day that Microsoft announced that they were very excited to be working with the UC Libraries and UC said they were happy to be working with MS....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/09/2006 01:24:00 PM.
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.
